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Transcription: [00:29:58]
{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
How do ya understand it?
{SILENCE}
[00:30:05]

{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Sheila Grinell (interpreter)"}

Who are you asking? Any, us, just us? Oh, okay.
[00:30:08]
Deaf people have, are very good in creativity. Wait a minute, let me back up. You're talking about television without captioning?

[00:30:21]
Often the deaf people will watch and they'll know what's going on, ahead of time before they say anything. Um sometimes we don't understand and we'll wait and then later we'll catch what was going on.
It's-
[00:30:40]

{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
How many of you people know about closed captioning in televisions these days? Maybe you'd better explain that.
{SILENCE}
[00:30:55]
{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Sheila Grinnell (interpreter)"}

Okay, we have a new special device it's a box like this and we can turn it on and we'll receive captioning on the television, on certain programs. By N-NB-N, ABC, NBC. NBC doesn't have it. No, no, no, wait a minute.
[00:31:18]
CBS is the only station, that doesn't have captioning, and we're trying to encourage them to set up and make captioning for us but they say wait until ten years.
[00:31:33]
But anyway for ABC we have captioning for us, it's really very useful. I really enjoy more TV programs because I can understand it-
[00:31:46]

{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
This is--
{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Sheila Grinnell (interpreter)"}
For example, before captioning itself was set up many people would love to watch Barney Miller, on television. Hearing people loved watching it because it was a lot of jokes, and deaf people it was nothing.
[00:32:01]
We didn't understand what was going on but now we have captioning and more deaf people are watching and laughing because we understand it with the captioning and it helps a lot-