The authors describe the development and use of the lesson guides prepared to accompany captioned films for the deaf. Six suggestions, including presentation of workshops by media specialists, are made for promoting use of the lesson guides. (CL)

Goes over approaches in putting together a yearbook, emphasizing photos and captions.

This study examined preferences of 207 deaf students and adults concerning video-captioning preferences using videodisc examples of various captioning-feature combinations. Results suggest that current features that should be retained include white letters and speaker-dependent placement, while new features that should be adopted include…

In a presentation at a symposium on educational media for teaching the deaf (1974), the author reviews milestones of the Media Services and Captioned Films program over the past 14 years. (LS)

Analyzes the contents of an anonymous high school yearbook to show the misuse of freedom of the press through irresponsible and distasteful captions. (RB)

An interview with W. Eugene Smith, well-known photographer and photographic essayist, is presented in this paper. The introductory section of the paper contains a biographical sketch of Smith and a discussion of his photographic essays on a number of topics, including World War II scenes, life in a Spanish village, the work of a black midwife in…

FILMSHARE, an interdepository loan system of educational captioned films for hearing impaired students, and BICS, a booking and inventory control system, are described. Use of these two microcomputer activities is explained to have increased the use of educational films and to have helped expand the collection as well. (CL)

Suggests teaching the use of picture-stories or captioned illustration to renew student interest in business communication. (AEA)

Respondents (N=1,745) were primarily deaf, with an early age of onset. They averaged high levels of newspaper reading and captioned television viewing. Roughly 50% reported watching the Captioned ABS News two or more times per week. Level of education was found to be significantly related to news reading and television viewing behavior. (Author/SB)

Describes the role of captioned programs in instructional television for the hearing impaired and notes prerequisite knowledge viewers must possess. Teacher objectives, preparatory or follow-up activities, supplementary materials, and evaluation methods are also presented. (BK)

One hundred eighty-seven students, enrolled in three elementary and secondary schools for the deaf, viewed a one-half-hour commercial television program captioned at 60, 90, or 120 words per minute and at increasing levels of linguistic complexity. (Author)

Provides pointers for writing yearbook picture captions and discusses ways of getting ideas for captions. (GT)

Proposes that scholastic journalists should not shortchange the importance of words under, beside, or below photographs. Notes that in-depth cutlines and captions for scholastic publications and photographs can help hook the reader into the feature on the page; extend the visual coverage of a photograph's content; and give readers specific…

A federal grant has been awarded to develop and test a prototype device to make closed-captioned television available to deaf-blind people. The Braille TeleCaption System, with output available in braille and large print, is currently being tested. Such new technology makes real-time viewing of news, weather, and entertainment accessible to…

The 250 most frequently used words in television captions are listed in order of frequency. This table is a correction to the table printed in the article "Instant Reading Incentives: TV Captions," in the September 1997 issue. (DB)