Developed by the Multi-level Captioning Project, the manual provides guidelines for linguistically controlling reading materials for the deaf. An introduction describes the three proposed reading levels based on difficulty of vocabulary, syntax, and inference. Chapter 1, on vocabulary, considers word list sources, guidelines for controlling…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper discusses the Multi Level Captioning Project, which has established guidelines for captioning at three reading levels by controlling vocabulary, syntax, and inferential content. Approaches to captioning describing the specific guidelines for controlling each of the…

Television is of limited value to hearing-impaired children, who cannot benefit from the soundtrack. Traditional caption writing techniques, which involve editing of the audio track, have been based primarily on the captioner's empirical knowledge and intuition and aim the captions at a presumed average language and reading ability of the target…