Children and Hearing Loss
Children and Hearing Loss While hearing loss is typically associated with age-related decline, many newborns and adolescents experience it from birth or due to illness and excessive noise exposure. In fact, hearing loss is the number one birth defect in the U.S. Most children in the U.S....
Tips for Creating an Inclusive Workspace
Tips for Creating an Inclusive Workspace Whether your company is large or small, recruiting a diverse workforce and enacting policies that promote equity and inclusion should be a top priority of human resources. This includes welcoming people who are deaf and hard of hearing, especially considering many...
9 Tips to Prevent Hearing Loss & Preserve Your Hearing
9 Tips to Prevent Hearing Loss & Preserve Your Hearing Although hearing is one of the five human senses, it’s easy to take for granted. Hearing loss often goes undiagnosed or ignored due to more pressing health issues until it interferes with daily life. But just as...
Inequalities of Women With Hearing Loss
Inequalities of Women With Hearing Loss Did you know Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Jodie Foster, and Holly Hunter all have hearing loss? Berry, a domestic violence victim, suffered hearing loss after a former boyfriend struck her in the head. Goldberg, who wears hearing aids, attributes her...
COVID-19’s Impact on Captioning
COVID-19's Impact on Captioning COVID-19 upended life as we know it for most people, transforming how we work, learn, communicate, and gather. The rise in remote work, weekly coronavirus news conferences, and virtual public meetings also brought accessibility issues front and center, especially for hard-of-hearing people. While...
Post-production Captions and What Your Company Should Know
Post-production Captions Captioning isn’t one size fits all. Caption Pros can provide your company with real-time translation and an instantaneous, fully edited transcript following a live event. In addition, we also offer post-production captioning services for prerecorded videos. Post-production captioning occurs after a video has been recorded,...
Have hearing loss? How to talk to your boss about captions
We’re all experiencing Zoom fatigue, but it can be especially frustrating for people who have hearing loss. You may not want to reveal your hearing loss in the workplace. Or maybe you serve on a public board or have been summoned for jury duty and feel...
4 Benefits Of Providing Live Captions For Webinars In Zoom
Zoom meetings, video conferences, and webinars have transformed the workplace – and the way businesses reach new customers. The coronavirus pandemic has forced most work meetings and live conferences online, and it’s a trend that is likely to continue in 2021. A detail often easy...
Top 10 tips for Running an Online Meeting
Whether you love them or hate them, the online meeting is the new normal for business, educational, and personal meetups. Zoom, Google Meet, Blackboard Collaborate, and social media video chats have helped us all survive the pandemic. It doesn’t matter if you want to video chat...