Deaf & Hearing Impaired Community, NAD!
Ladies & Gentlemen!

We face a serious threat from several well organized and financially powerful 
monopolies bonded by campaign and political contributions with politicians. 

1.  I the CART technology employed in courts as a standard accommodations. In 
addition deaf party gets as a transcript court reporter's captioning instead 
transcript from audio recording!  However deaf community have to be aware 
about inaccuracy and manipulability such transcripts are affecting rights and 
sometimes freedom deaf party in courts! Such heavy possible damage for deaf 
party in courts require substitution CART technology by Voice Recognition 
Technology, that ALLOWS excepts possibility altering a single word in 
captioning arguments in a court! In addition such software allows keep 
recording suggested spelling alike sounding words that allows to check 
accuracy transcription. The accuracy  of captioning is a very important for 
deaf community issue! In addition, substitution CART by Voice Recognition 
Technology allows drastically increase accuracy and reduce cost court hearing 
transcription. It should be kept in mind that monopolies created for 
extraction a maximal profit, therefore court reporters obviously take 
adversary to deaf party side. In my case against NJ Inst. Technology, in one 
hearing, a private court reporter employed likely due my demand exception 
court reporters received from the adversary money for captioning my classes, 
positioned herself with me far away from a judge and microphones for exception 
audio recording and arbitrary alternations captioning. In that hearing the 
judge claimed that a communication is too annoying(a reporter obviously had 
problems with understanding speech due big distance from the judge and my not 
so perfect pronunciation, and probably due her limited experience) and 
dismissed the case without giving me possibility to finish my presentation. 
The NJIT claimed the judge did not say "annoying communication" and since the 
reporter excluded possibility audio recording and she can to alter captioning 
by couple strokes key there is no way to prove it. One can't expect siding a 
member reporter's monopoly of deaf person if his adversary paid them about 
$100,000. for captioning only my 3 semesters at NJIT! In criminal cases a deaf 
party can get a long sentence for minor even accidental altering captioning or 
sign interpretations! Another application CART is hurting Deaf Community is 
employment it for classroom accommodation that costs about $100. per/h. and 
seems using money supplied Federal Work-Study Program. The CART doesn't 
provide accurate captioning, more over to cover their inability to do it 
court reporters are captioning sometimes contradicting sentences. In addition 
you can't see visual presentation on a blackboard. I am trying unsuccessfully 
to get pre-recorded audio and video with later captioning with voice 
recognition software for insurance accuracy and possibility to see captioning 
synchronized with speech. Such combination provides opportunity practice in 
lip reading in college diversity vocabulary setting. It can be done by 
students under Federal W-Study  Program. In such setting a student can see 
captioning at the same time as visual presentation is processing. And most 
important, it will provide needy students some money and valuable experience 
in advanced voice recognition technology. The court reporters after 2 
years stenography training  simply can't provide accurate and speedy enough
captioning for a student's 5-6 college level vocabulary courses. In my 
experience a CART reporter was not able to caption accurately even home 
assignments that she saw I wrote down from a screen. Considering blatant 
inaccuracy their captioning, reporters refuse supply even edited floppies. 
However a disability counselor supports their policy claiming that a reporter have only provide "real-time captioning" and suggested
ridiculous addition - notes written by other student  presenting in a class! 
That would provide possibility to see on a screen something related to speech 
of a professor and a short summary topics presented in a class in notes! Such 
"accommodations" caused me failure one course and a very poor academic 
progress in others, although I have passed already similar courses in the 
past and possess an outstanding IQ scores. Yet another negative aspect CART 
accommodations is increase tuition for all other students due its outrageous 
cost.

Another challenge is from a monopoly of hearing aids dispensers. We have to 
fight joint abuse insurers and Hearing Aids Dispensers. NAD supplied me a 
phone of Medicaid Fraud Hot Line, but it does not work. It seems Hearing Aids 
Dispensers was supplied by Medicaid-Medicare Programs for extraction campaign and other contributions. That Hot Line gives an address only for complaints but never gives back feed. Medicaid paid for my used and defective hearing aids about $2,000. but they
characteristic, but they never used it for tuning hearing aids, prefer to sell 
used devices and what is especially hurts, that they are defective and 
consumers literally have no any power against them except exchange information 
and avoiding especially dishonest suppliers. However Medicaid and Medicare 
holders can't do even it,since they have come only to pre approved service 
providers.

Sincerely
Lev Pribytkov
l.pribytkov@juno.com