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Alabama Board
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The
ABCR is
located at 7550 Halcyon Summit Drive, Suite 125,
Montgomery, Alabama, in the Carr, Riggs & Ingram
building. The executive director of the
ABCR is Paula "Scout" McCaleb.
Contact ABCR for all questions regarding licensing, rules,
and procedures regarding Alabama's Certified
Court Reporter licensure. The ABCR is the
licensing and rulemaking entity in the State of
Alabama for court reporters and is a separate entity from ACRA.
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CEU REPORTING |
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Read the ABCR rules
regarding CEU's in
Chapter 257-X-6.
As a service to
our members, ACRA will maintain a transcript of
CEU's of all ACRA-administered points (from our
conferences). You can view your
transcript under your roster entry. Please
view your transcript for accuracy.
If
you receive CEU's from any other provider, you
must maintain the certifying paperwork. If
you receive CEU's from ACRA and you are not a
member, you must maintain your punch card and
agenda.
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President's message |
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Julia Isenhower, ACRA President
(click on picture for message)
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From
a
neuropsychologist's deposition:
A. May I give an example of this?
Q. Sure.
A. Okay. If you look -- And the example is
this. Our brains are a miracle. Okay. They're
a miracle that needs to be protected. And if
you look at the court reporter right now, as an
example, okay, this is a miracle in progress
happening right before your eyes.
Let me just explain what she needs to do. I am
speaking, so the information has to come in
through her ear into her temporal lobe, and it
has to go log itself into the language center.
She has to be able to comprehend what I'm
saying. Then it has to get rerouted to the
prefrontal cortex where it has to hold -- she
has to be able to hold the information, because,
you know, I continuously talk so she has to hold
it. Right? Then she has to analyze it,
integrate it and synthesize it. Then it has to
go back to the cerebellum and she has to be able
to execute this, and she has to be able to then
convert my words into those little squiggly
marks. Have you ever seen court reporters have
little squiggly language things?
So she has to convert it into a
different language, and the white matter tracks
allows her to reroute all of this information
simultaneously without effort. Okay. We take
our brains for granted. She's sitting here.
I'm probably talking too fast for her, but she's
able to do this simultaneously. Seamlessly.
Okay. No animal on the planet can do this. All
right. That's why I believe court reporters
will never be replaced. Because no technical --
no technology could replace the beauty of that
brain and the miracle of that brain. And that's
why your brain should always be protected and
you should take care of it.
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