Why not just go the high-tech route, and let the deaf download an app that gives them the dialogue that way? As long as they keep the sound down re: notifications, I can't see a problem with making an exception on the no-phones rules they must have.

Deaf literacy for about 90% of people born deaf plateaus at around the grade 3-4 area, just as they swap from learning to read, to reading to learn. Functionally illiterate. And plays tend to use quite flowery poetic metaphorical language, far more advanced in complexity than many deaf people are able to handle with those levels of literacy.

I'm all for self-determination and independant learning, and it is absolutely their responsibility to try to fix these issues in their adulthood. But they have absolutely been let down by the education system and so captions cannot work, they were fucked over and have 10 years of learning (while not being in a learning environment) to catch up with, there's some allowence there.

Why not just go the high-tech route, and let the deaf download an app that gives them the dialogue that way? As long as they keep the sound down re: notifications, I can't see a problem with making an exception on the no-phones rules they must have.

Deaf literacy for about 90% of people born deaf plateaus at around the grade 3-4 area, just as they swap from learning to read, to reading to learn. Functionally illiterate. And plays tend to use quite flowery poetic metaphorical language, far more advanced than the literacy many signers coming in with,

I'm all for self-determination and independant learning, and it is absolutely their responsibility to try to fix these issues in their adulthood. But they have absolutely been let down by the education system and so captions cannot work.