South Coast College CART Provider Visits Campus

South Coast College has the best alumni.  They are always there sharing their expertise with students, faculty, and staff.  Every quarter, Melissa Sosa, CSR, who is one of the best CART providers, visits Kevin Magner's computer class to demonstrate how she is able to be present demonstrating in the class while working. 

Melissa Sosa, CSR, CART Provider

Melissa is one of a growing number of alumni who are deciding to use their expertise in helping the deaf and hard-of-hearing community to enjoy their lives more fully.  Melissa came to the school that day despite the fact that she had worked until midnight the night before providing services remotely to the Berkeley City Council.  She had a few days earlier provided her services to a webinar for the Fulbright scholars.

After demonstrating her skills in class and her passion for the work that she is doing, Melissa provided one-on-one sessions with students to explain the many facets of using stenography for assisting the deaf and hard-of-hearing.  She demonstrated how the skill is used to assist students in remote classrooms, how it can be used to provide captions for webcasts, and how it can be used in a variety of different venues.Melissa has appeared in court next to a witness who was deaf to provide captions for the witness to view.  She has traveled to a number of different venues to assist employees who were hard-of-hearing or deaf to receive in-service.  

Melissa said that she enjoys the job not only for the rewarding feeling that she receives from helping others but form the daily challenge it provides.  She has to be constantly learning new vocabulary and keeping up with technology.  Just imagine how challenging it is to have to report a webinar for Fulbright Scholars.  

President Jean Gonzalez and Melissa Sosa, CSR, CART Provider

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Saba McKinley Comments on South Coast College Graduation Speaker

Saba McKinley, CSR

Saba McKinley is a court reporter who has reported in court for many years.  She has covered many complex court cases.  She currently has moved to using her skills in the CART arena for the hard of hearing and deaf population.  Among other places, she provides CART services to students at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).  Recently, she has been providing training on the campus of South Coast College in Orange.  She has her own CART-provider services called DivineScripts.

She attended the Saturday March 7, 2015 South Coast College in Orange, CA, Commencement Exercises at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.  This is what she had to say about one of the commencement speakers, Cassandra Caldarella, CSR.


"I was inspired to attend the graduation ceremony of South Coast College graduates. How amazed, inspired and moved I was at the sheer love of the court reporting profession by this school. Cassandra Caldarella, whom some of you may know, is an alum of SCC and was the guest speaker to speak on behalf of the court reporting profession. Her knowledge and love for what she does, and her character for sharing her gifts and the gifts of this profession were no less than heartwarming and motivational. I am so happy to have attended this event and to hear such a dynamic and wonderful commencement address. Way to go, Cassandra. I look forward to the day that the two of us sit down for a chit chat about expanding the stenographic profession with the inclusion of CART and Broadcast captioning as viable career choices for one who has stenotype skills."

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