CATapult CDs have assisted thousands of students and court reporters to increase speed and advance their skills. Now it’s your turn!

The only one of its kind, CATapult CDs will absolutely change the way you work and advance in your career and schooling for court reporting and captioning, and will help you earn NCRA and state certifications.

Dictionary Prep Material for Court Reporting and Captioning Training, Education Includes:

CATapult Your Dictionary CD Volume B: A.D.A., Civil Rights History, Agribusiness, Convention, Real Estate, Insurance and Affirmative Action

• ISBN 1-881149-31-5    Volume B includes: 50,000+ words on one CD, adjustable audio, visual display and categories include:
  
• history, American with Disabilities Act, A.D.A.; Federal Laws Empowering Persons; Handicapped and Disables Service Terminology; Sign Interpreter Certifications; Telephone Numbers for A.D.A. Information; A.D.A. Summarized; Historical Development on Captioning; Ten Original Amendments; Bill of Rights, Amendments Since Bill of Rights; History of Civil Rights Legislation; Civil Rights, Affirmative Action Terminology; Business Terminology; Commercial, Personal, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies; Commercial Real Estate and Housing; Agribusiness Terminology.

No complicated maze, rabbit trail of steps, prior to importing, merging words, which you are unable to view with an ’open’ realtime dictionary.

Plus: You may Listen To Your Text with your CAT software open, running. Three easy steps, and you’re good to go. You never import, overwriting strokes.

1. Open your CAT realtime window / minimize it.

2. Open CATapult CD / pick list / split screen.

3. Bring up realtime file / split screen.

If you are realtiming witnesses or providing CART in a classroom or convention, these topics will be discussed. Each night on local and national televised broadcasts, current events and related topics are discussed. This CD will launch your career and your dictionary.

CATapult CDs have many features, which include dictionary building as a free feature.

To order this product click on the "Buy Now" link at the top of this page. 

Each ’CATapult’ ™ CD is not a one-trick pony -- dictionary building is only one feature. CD series has free multiple uses, features, and applications for captioners, reporters, students.

CATapult: The only software where you open your CAT translation software and write words against your dictionary, so you can detect problems/potential conflicts AS YOU BUILD.

Monette Benoit’s materials, www.CRRbooks.com, and CATapult CD series are wonderful for dictionary building and test prep, too. They are highly recommended by captioning companies for transitioning reporters and have been a tremendous help to me. Suzanne Small, RDR, RMR, CRR, CBC, CPE, CSR

Before You Buy Court Reporting Dictionary Software You Should Ask:

Will you be asked to ’import’ words?
1. Can you create/build your own lists of words? Is so, are there limits?
2. Can you adjust the speed of presentation for each word, each term to three modes - listen, see and jumble? (Can you adjust the fonts, colors, too?)
3. Can you realtime with your CAT software OPEN while you are working with any list of words? Avoid and eliminate problems, duplications, hesitations, frustrations.
4. Are you limited to the number of times you can work with a specific list, specific computers?
5. Can you hear how each word is pronounced without taking time to go to an additional site to listen to each word? This is tedious and time-consuming.
6. When you merge/import your words from a list, will they overwrite previous entries that you want to keep?

7. * You should not have to purchase names from any rosters, teams -- names with unusual spellings -- *** This is all available on the Internet; you should be able to take this information and use it FREE in a custom feature within your dictionary building software to help you with court reporting training.
8. Do you have a money-back guarantee?

Are you a student or experienced reporter cross-training into captioning and realtime work?

This CD is a must-have and will assist you in the classroom, judicial and free-lance setting, CART and captioning daily broadcasts. You will catapult your skills with expert witnesses, speed-tests, 24/7 news broadcasts and launch your dictionary.

This CATapult CD will change the way you work and advance in your career, schooling and assist you to earn NCRA and state certifications.

You also have the additional free feature to review each word prior to any job, depo, court, captioning assignment, any test.

Prep for specific words, names, vocabulary, on jobs and in speed-building classes.

*** The only ’dictionary’ CD with multiple features and features you customize.

Volumes A - H: View your steno notes as you write in realtime, avoid conflicts; listen to your text while your realtime window is open.

• Prep for any topic, show, job and/or a test within minutes.

• Copy any text you are working on and insert any text into ’create your own category’.

• Practice and make brief forms as you listen and see your work.

• Are you struggling with a curriculum vitae or a speed class?

• Practice and warm-up prior to any event, job, test.

• Improve and hone your skills after any event, job, test.

• This CD will assist you to prepare to write ’it’ right the first time.

• How will you remember how to write each word accurately, without hesitation? Words are flashed for repetition, in one-line-per-minute increments, 50 - 250 lines per minute on each ’CATapult’ CD.

Kathy DiLorenzo, RDR-CRR-CBC:  As you’re beginning to undertake this huge, but rewarding endeavor...while theory, speed and accuracy are the foundation to becoming a successful captioner, equally important to the process is your strategy to reach your goal and keeping the bigger picture in view. I’ve had a long history in training captioners, and it is my belief that the strongest captioners are those who are strong writers. Seems simplistic, I know, but the reason that they’re strong writers is not because they’ve got perfect fingers on perfect hands (There are successful men in our profession whose hands barely fit on the keyboard!). The reason that they’re strong writers is because they can process information at a very rapid pace. And they can process information quickly because they ’know’ what they’re writing. You can’t write well what you don’t know and what you don’t understand. In the end, it’s all about words, but you’ve got to know the words and the subjects.

Toward that end, I want to recommend to any newbies out there that the materials that you are using to prepare to caption are equally important as the actual writing skills. One product that I would highly recommend is the ’CATapult Your Dictionary’ CD Series.

Monette Benoit has a long and illustrious career in developing materials that give captioners and captioner-wannabes the ’knowledge’ that they need to caption well. The CD Series includes a realtime dictionary builder that is compatible with any CAT system, and it even allows you to import your own lists or lists that are shared on this forum and others. CATapult contains over a half a million words among 420 categories that were accumulated as a result of years of input from experienced captioners who build their dictionaries the hard way...getting an untranslate on air! You can find out more about CATapult by visiting http://www.catapultdix.com/.
Kathy DiLorenzo, RDR-CRR-CBC, Vice President, National Reporter Relations, LegaLink / VITAC Corporation, divisions of WordWave

SEE and HEAR each word ~ CATapult is the only interactive dictionary product with half a million words and free additional features. Reporters write what they hear, not what they see. No need to go to another source listening to how words are pronounced. Leading court reporting instructors ask: "How can you possibly build a dictionary and expand your skills if you can’t hear the words?" Working with our CDs, you stay focused. Copyright ©

Over half a million words, 420 categories, per your requests.

You have a good model for drills, and it is well-executed. I loved the ability to personalize it with fonts and sizes, and even with content! Also, a good idea to allow unlimited speed adjustments.

You have an elegant, easy-to-use engine, and the content just plugs in with ease -- I added my own words the first try. Together with the extensive and specific content you have collected and researched over the years, it is a great combination. I can see how a student or professional would gain much through the practice. Teacher

Additional testimonials may be read: http://crrbooks.com/index.php?cPath=28