tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2567113006539367386.post4463729882000185978..comments2008-10-11T15:26:59.780-07:00Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12069419395905846540noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2567113006539367386.post-31730875654118936642008-10-11T15:26:00.000-07:002008-10-11T15:26:00.000-07:00Hi Glenn,<BR/><BR/>My name is Darlene and I was made aware of your blog today. I am a certified CART provider in the greater Seattle area and I'm so dismayed at your experience. Please don't judge CART based on the services you've received. The truth of the matter is you get what you pay for. There are currently no requirements that CART providers be certified, so people who maybe didn't graduate from court reporting school can call themselves CART providers and go out there and perform sub par. They didn't have the speed to graduate. What makes them qualified to deal with the variable speeds and terminology challenges that are encountered in an ever-changing classroom? Having said that, there are also some non-certified CART providers in Washington State who do an excellent job. There is legislation currently being proposed to recommend that only certified CART providers be hired. Certification may not have solved all the problems you encountered, but it would guarantee at least a basic level of expertise. Remote CART works successfully every day in many colleges and universities - it's true that sometimes, depending on the audio setup, only the person mic'd can be heard. That's a downfall to remote versus having an onsite CART provider. <BR/><BR/>I know that back in the spring when the Typewell providers left CWU, I was contacted and the rates that CWU was willing to pay were not close to what any certified, competent CART provider I know would work for. <BR/><BR/>The best possible thing you can do is exactly what you are doing. Continue to be your best advocate and demand competent EQUAL access!Darlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16950452802991059252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2567113006539367386.post-90774809865456637392008-10-06T21:27:00.000-07:002008-10-06T21:27:00.000-07:00Part of this is why I think what they are doing is discriminatory. What is available as accommodations at other schools is much more "sufficient" than what we have here.Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12069419395905846540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2567113006539367386.post-16108703252189706602008-10-06T21:12:00.000-07:002008-10-06T21:12:00.000-07:00It would depend on whose side you look at it from. It is hard to imagine how the DSS office can call any CART they have supplied as "adequate" but I guess they thought otherwise. They seem to think that everything they do is sufficient. I don't think much of what they do is.Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12069419395905846540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2567113006539367386.post-57906815014333836012008-10-06T19:29:00.000-07:002008-10-06T19:29:00.000-07:00You raise an interesting point. Are accomodations, no matter how (in)adequate, sufficient?Leannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03928537274114663807noreply@blogger.com