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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nettrice Gaskins will be our Day 2 keynote speaker! Dr. Gaskins will be speaking on "Artificial Intelligence and Community Expression". Thank you to our Keynote Speaker Sponsor, Municipal Captioning. Register today for ACM's Conference! ---> https://bit.ly/3MShOfN

Alliance for Community Media - West Region - Register soon! Don't miss out on the vendor lineup at the ACM West Conference & Trade Show Feb 22-24
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We held a "Super Serious Coloring Contest" for , the first Virtual Conference we've fully attended, with virtual exhibitor booth and all. All of the entries are fantastic and while they were posted one at a time on Daniell's personal page and Twitter, the judges asked for a post with all of them in one place so they can vote for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners. Here they are, posted in reverse order of when they were received. Thanks to the folks from Motown Digital who are running this virtual conference, and the folks from NATOA for making this whole event fun.

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All of these Companies will be at the WCM - ACM Midwest Spring Conference. Would You Like to Know MORE about these Wonderful Vendors who Support Community Media and Want to do Business with You? Go to the WCM website, https://wisconsincommunitymedia.com, scroll to the bottom and click a logo! See You at the Conference!

Looking forward to speaking at this conference in May and seeing some of my Midwestern access friends. It'll also be my first chance to share what I see at NAB with members of the PEG community. Thanks Wisconsin Community Media and ACM Midwest! If any of MC's FB followers will be there, let me know and I'll buy the first round of cheese curds :)

Join WCM and ACM Midwest at the 2019 Spring Conference! For more info, go to https://wisconsincommunitymedia.com/spring-conference.

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Ok, so I didn’t exactly win the Municipal Captioning coloring contest at the ACM West conference back in January. I’ll keep practicing.

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Why do you have captions on?” I asked.

“It helps me with my ADHD: I can focus on the words, I catch things I missed, and I never have to go back,” she replied. “And I can text while I watch.”

My multitasking daughter used to watch TV while working on her laptop and texting or FaceTiming on her phone. She kept rewinding the DVR to catch the last few minutes she’d missed because she either zoned out or was distracted by another screen.

Her response turned out to be even more insightful than I realized at first. A number of mental health experts I spoke with — and even one study I found — supported the notion that watching with closed captioning serves a valuable role for those who struggle with focus and listening.

“I do see this a lot in my practice,” said Dr. Andrew Kent, an adolescent psychiatrist practicing in New York and Medical Director of New York START, Long Island. “I believe auditory processing is more easily impacted upon by distractions, and that they need to read [captions] to stay focused.”

Closed captioning is a relatively recent development in the history of broadcasting, and it was designed with the hearing impaired in mind. According to a useful history on the National Captioning Institute’s (NCI) website, the technology dates back to the early 1970s, when Julia Child’s The French Chef “made history as the first television program accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers.” Real-time captioning arrived later, with stenographers typing at a blazing 250 words-per-minute to keep up with live news and sporting events.

They use captions to focus more intently on the content.
If it wasn’t for the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 and additional rules adopted by the FCC in 2012, it’s unlikely my daughter’s IP-based Netflix streaming content would even have closed captioning options today.

While the NCI doesn’t explicitly acknowledge the growing use of closed captioning by those without hearing impairments, it does note that “closed captioning has grown from an experimental service intended only for people who are deaf to a truly global communications service that touches the lives of millions of people every day in vital ways.”

It’s certainly not just a phenomenon for young people. There are many people my age who admit to using them because they have some middle-aged hearing loss or simply need help understanding what the characters on Luther or Peaky Blinders are saying. They use captions to focus more intently on the content.

The need to read captions for what you can hear might even have a biological base. According to Dr. Sudeepta Varma, a psychiatrist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, some people may have trouble processing the audio from television.

“I believe that there are a number of individuals who have ADHD who may also suffer from undiagnosed auditory processing disorder (APD), and for these individuals… this may be very helpful,” Dr. Varma told me via email. Closed captioning can provide the visual cues that APD sufferers need to overcome their issues with listening and comprehension, she added.

APD refers to how the brain processes auditory information, and though it supposedly only affects around 5 percent of school-age children, there’s reportedly been a significant uptick in overall awareness. As Dr. Varma pointed out, there may be a lot of people who don’t realize they have APD, but are aware of some of the symptoms, which include being bothered by loud noises, difficulty focusing in loud environments, and forgetfulness

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