Court Reporting

Funded by:
US Department of Labor

Project Description:

This grant-funding is dedicated to the training of court reporters in real time captioning services for the hearing-impaired community. Current FCC regulations require captioning of all new programming broadcasts by the years 2006. Realtime captioning provides instant translation of spoken words into text, offing the hearing-impaired community the ability to get news and other vital information from live television, as well as providing opportunities to allow hearing-impaired individuals to interact in civic, professional, educational, religious and personal activities. Funding will be used to train incumbent court reporters through a number of intense classroom-style courses held throughout the country and to help develop the curriculum for court reporting students through a sub-grant from the University of Mississippi to Hinds Community College.

Contact Information

J. Renee Moore, Assoc. Director
Continuing Legal Education
The University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677

phone: 662-915-6738
fax: 662-915-5138
e-mail: moore@olemiss.edu