Captioning in Churches: Resource: “Captioningtheword.com”

Great resource for churches  interested in captioning, and they also provide related services – consulting, etc.

Some of my favorite pages:

Captioning Explained:

http://captioningtheword.com/information/captioning-explained.html

Captioning Equipment:

http://captioningtheword.com/information/captioning-equipment.html

Captioning Techniques:

http://captioningtheword.com/information/captioning-techniques.html

Did you know:

http://captioningtheword.com/information/did-you-know.html

From their “Did you know”:
“Christians are called to preach the gospel to the whole world, including people who are deaf.

In light of this, consider the following statistics:

• There are 28 million Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in North America.
• 98% of the people with a hearing loss do not have a church home.
• The deaf are the 4th largest unreached people group in the world.
• 90% of people with hearing loss do not use sign language.
• 90% of the deaf are born to hearing parents.
• Of those parents, 92% do not sign.

(Submitted by Bernice Radavich, RDR, CRR, CPE, from Lemont, IL)

Captions are not only used by the deaf and hard of hearing. Others who use captions include:

• people learning English as a second language
• children learning to read
• visual learners

People retain:

• 20% of what they SEE
• 30% of what they HEAR
• 50% of what they HEAR AND SEE

Wouldn’t you rather have your congregation retain 50% of what is said in church service?”

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