Current Court Reporters

Now through May 31st, Transition to Realtime Court Reporting, Captioning, or CART Providing.

Prices Reduced by as much as $599.00. Now with 3 Easy Payments!

I have started the program, and I’m very happy with it. I have added a lot more prefixes and suffixes to enable me to build words not already in my dictionary, which is key if your interest is in captioning. And I have learned to put inflected endings in a separate stroke. It took some getting used to writing inflected endings in a separate stroke in the beginning, and I still on occasion will forget when I’m pushed for time. Now, however, mostly I come back for the inflected endings, and I definitely see a huge improvement in my translation doing it this way. At first I didn’t like having to come back for the stroke, but now I can clearly see the benefit of writing in that fashion.

- Jannette P., Freelance Reporter, 27 years

Your realtime program is working really great. It feels as if you are right there in the room with me. The lessons are easy to understand, and I can already see a difference in my writing. And the speed building materials you furnished me really helped. I passed the RPR!!

- Sandy H., Official Reporter, 20 years

I have been a freelance real-time reporter for 18 years. I purchased Court Reporting and Captioning at Home – Transitioning from Court Reporting to Closed Captioning about six months ago. My translation rate in deposition or courtroom settings is typically 98 to 99 percent. However, when I started writing TV programs it was nowhere near that good. So, I have modified my theory and done extensive dictionary work through use of this program which has improved my translation rate by leaps and bounds. This program is very easy to follow. It gets straight to the heart of it and doesn’t waste time on anything that is unnecessary!

- Kelli K., Freelance Reporter 18 years

All Pricing Effective Through May 31st.

Captioning at Home Program WAS $1,499.00 NOW 1 payment of $900 or 3 equal payments of $333.00.

Realtime Reporting and Captioning Theory for Reporters
Theory Dictation CDs with a Drill for each realtime writing theory lesson
Captioning DVDs with transcripts and glossaries
160-180-200 wpm Extended Literary Dictation on CD with transcripts
5 Literary tests at 180 wpm on CD with transcripts
5 Q&A tests at 225 wpm on CD with transcripts
6 Realtime writing tests with transcripts
Frequently Asked Captioning Questions
NCRA’s 30 Recommended Glossaries
5 Additional Glossaries
Personal Grading Chart
Captioning Writing and Formatting Recommendations
NCRA’s CBC (Certified Broadcast Captioner) What Constitutes an Error?
Progress Checklist
Grading Charts and Manual Calculation Sheets or Computer Program to calculate your degree of accuracy

Court Reporter Realtime Writing Program WAS $899.00 NOW 1 payment of $600 or 3 equal payments of $233.00.

Realtime Writing and Captioning Theory for Reporters
Theory Dictation CDs with a Drill for each realtime writing concept
160-180-200 wpm Extended Literary Dictation on CD with transcripts
10 Literary tests at 180 wpm on CD with transcripts
5 Q&A tests at 225 wpm on CD with transcripts
6 Realtime writing tests on CD with transcripts
Personal Grading Chart
NCRA’s CRR What Constitutes an Error
Progress Checklist
Grading Charts and Manual Calculation Sheets or Computer Program to calculate your degree of accuracy

CART Providing at Home Program WAS $1,499.00 NOW 1 payment of $900 or 3 equal payments of $333.00.

Realtime Reporting and Captioning Theory for Reporters
Theory Dictation CDs with a Drill for each realtime writing theory lesson
CART Providing CDs with transcripts and glossaries
160-180-200 wpm Extended Literary Dictation on CD with transcripts
5 Literary tests at 180 wpm on CD with transcripts
5 Q&A tests at 225 wpm on CD with transcripts
6 Realtime writing tests on CD with transcripts
Frequently Asked CART Providing Questions
NCRA’s 30 Recommended Glossaries
5 Additional Glossaries
Personal Grading Chart
CART Providing Writing and Formatting Recommendations
NCRA’s CCP (Certified CART Provider) What Constitutes an Error?
Progress Checklist
Grading Charts and Manual Calculation Sheets or Computer Program to calculate your degree of accuracy

Captioning and CART Providing Combined WERE $1,999.00 NOW 1 payment of $1200 or 3 equal payments of $433.00.

Realtime Reporting and Captioning Theory for Reporters
Theory Dictation CDs with a Drill for each realtime writing theory lesson
Captioning DVDs with transcript pages and glossaries
CART Providing CDs with transcript pages and glossaries
160-180-200 wpm Extended Literary Dictation on CD with transcripts
10 Literary tests at 180 wpm on CD with transcripts
5 Q&A tests at 225 wpm on CD with transcripts
6 Realtime writing tests on CD with transcripts
Frequently Asked CART Providing Questions
Frequently Asked Captioning Questions
NCRA’s 30 Recommended Glossaries
5 Additional Glossaries
Personal Grading Chart
Captioning Writing and Formatting Recommendations
CART Providing Writing and Formatting Recommendations
NCRA’s CCP (Certified CART Provider) What Constitutes an Error?
NCRA’s CBC (Certified Broadcast Captioner) What Constitutes an Error?
CART Providing Progress Checklist
Captioning Progress Checklist
Grading Charts and Manual Calculation Sheets or Computer Program to calculate your degree of accuracy

Are you a Court Reporter who wants to improve your realtime writing to be able to offer realtime in your court reporting career or to transition to either captioning or CART Providing? Well, welcome to CRAH’s comprehensive, self-paced, Broadcast Captioning and CART Providing distance education programs. So you’ve tried all the seminars, gone on the cruises, and still …you can’t translate proficiently enough to caption or provide CART services. It’s not surprising…and it’s not your fault. Are you an excellent court reporter, but when you write anything outside the legal field, your translation is less than stellar?

Improving your writing by updating your theory cannot be accomplished in a weekend seminar or a week-long cruise. It takes methodical, structured, daily work incorporating realtime writing theory concepts. After all, you’ve been writing this way for years, and you cannot change your style overnight. But the good news is … you CAN change your style of writing to allow you to be an excellent realtime writer. Offering realtime will keep you in demand and ensure job security.

Captioning and CART Providing at Home will take you step by step through the process to prepare you to enter these careers. This is a very structured program requiring just your motivation and discipline to practice.

What Captioning at Home and CART Providing at Home offer you are OPTIONS! There isn’t one perfect captioning and CART Providing theory for everyone. However, you will find options that work for you and your style of writing. Think about it … If you resolved your top five major errors by incorporating realtime writing concepts, you would probably reduce your transcript editing between 75% to 85%. You will have the additional benefit of seeing your transcripts clean up and translate more accurately each day you learn a new realtime writing concept and incorporate it into your next daily assignment!

How long it takes to improve your translation rate depends upon the amount of time you have available to practice and how much work is necessary to improve your writing. First, you must update your theory with some realtime writing concepts to be certain your notes translate more accurately. The “Realtime Reporting and Captioning Theory” is the only NCRA-approved theory developed specifically for home study students. It was actually named for me by Kathy DiLorenzo, past President of the NCRA, but more importantly to me, one of the most renowned captioners in the country, having served as a Vice-President of Vitac Captioning Company for over 20 years. She stated she felt I should name it something that would let students know that whether they wished to enter court reporting as a realtime writer, or broadcast captioner, or CART Provider that it would provide them with a realtime writing foundation for any of the three careers.

You do not have to “start over” by any means, but it does require you to incorporate some realtime writing concepts that you have probably never had before. Updating your theory ensures your translation will improve exponentially with each added realtime writing concept.

How do you train to make this transition? Here are the 6 easy steps:

Evaluate your current realtime translation by taking a literary test at 180 wpm. Log this score into your Grading Chart for a point of reference. Now you know where to begin.
Memorize the realtime writing concepts you need to incorporate into your old theory. Most programs and realtime seminars simply lecture to you about these concepts and illustrate them in a book, but the Captioning at Home and CART Providing at Home programs contain CDs with theory dictation drills for you to practice to help you incorporate these concepts into your daily writing. The CD dictation for theory lessons is extremely important, because you must hear these words repetitively in order to retain the theory concept in your memory. You can’t just look at them in a book. You must hear them and write them to ingrain them in your memory!
Edit your steno dictionary to include these realtime writing concepts.
Add glossaries of terms in your steno dictionary. The NCRA recommends approximately 30 glossaries, and we have done the work for you! You will receive all 30 of the recommended glossaries as well as 5 additional glossaries. This will save you many, many weeks researching these terms.
Practice writing from captioning or CART assignments, testing yourself often to see the improvement in your translation. CRAH has various programs, and you may begin with less difficult programs and work up to the more difficult national news and home shopping programs. The CART assignments are varied from professors’ lectures to corporate meetings and various other assignments.
Learn the “academics” about your career choice, i.e., what kind of hardware and software you require, what kind of employment is available, how to obtain employment, how to network, all the frequently asked questions you would like to have answered. I consulted with some of the most renowned captioners and CART Providers in the country to answer these kinds of questions.

These programs contain “real” captioning and CART assignments WITH TRANSCRIPTS for you to practice writing as well as use for tests. Why are transcripts important? The NCRA recommends that you test yourself often. How can you grade your translation without a verbatim transcript? You can’t. Traditional schools and other programs simply recommend you record a television program with the captions turned on. However, if you’ve ever tried to proof/grade a transcript from television by stopping and starting the t.v. over and over again, you know it is almost impossible to do so. Additionally, captioners and CART Providers are allowed to summarize on occasion, and you might have written verbatim at a point where the captioner or CART Provider summarized, possibly counting those as errors when in fact, YOU had written it correctly. So it is just impractical, if not impossible, to attempt to grade your transcript from anything less than a verbatim transcript. And finally, and most importantly, you will have no idea how many words are in the transcript if you do not have a verbatim transcript.

This is important to you, because in order to calculate your degree of proficiency, you must know the number of words in the segment you just wrote. To assist you with this, all the transcripts in the CRAH program are in Microsoft Word, and you simply highlight the first and last word you wrote, and using the Word Count feature of Microsoft Word, it will calculate how many words are in that segment. Then, utilizing a great little software program we developed, you can input the number of errors you made together with the total word count, and it will calculate your degree of accuracy for you!

Have you lost a little speed over the years, or perhaps just need to gain a little speed? We have included extended literary dictation, 15-minute segments, at 160-180-200 wpm. We have included 5 literary tests in the Captioning at Home Program and 5 different literary tests in the CART Providing at Home Program for your use in evaluating your continual improvement and 6 realtime writing tests.

You WILL be able to improve your realtime writing with the Captioning at Home and CART Providing at Home programs … and practice. You cannot complete this over night. Take one realtime theory concept at a time and master it, and then proceed to the next concept. Seeing daily improvement in your writing and translation is tremendous motivation to incorporate all the realtime writing concepts, but it is your choice how many concepts you wish to utilize.

To place your order for a single payment, click here. To take advantage of our 3 Easy Payments Plan, call 877-253-0200.

Use of our 3 Easy Payments Plan requires automatic billing to a debit or credit card on the same day each month for the two remaining payments. Due to the nature of these programs, there are no returns and no refunds. Purchasers are responsible for all three payments.

There is a $35 shipping and handling fee, and sales tax applies to Florida residents

If you have additional questions, contact us at 877-253-0200.

The CRAH program is copyright protected and licensed only to the original purchaser and may not be sold, given, or in any manner transferred to a third party. Due to the nature of the CRAH program, once it has shipped, it cannot be returned for credit or refund.