For each work assignment, photojournalists must decide whether to use black-and-white or color film and how to frame the picture. These decisions are considered crucial, yet little is known about how the presence of color and design complexity affect how people process the information in photographs. A study tested whether color and design…

Describes the evaluation process by which the U.S. Office of Education annually selects, from a marketplace of 25,000 educational films, 100 films to be captioned for deaf education. (CMV)

Provides photographs and descriptions of attention-getting layouts used in high school and college yearbooks, magazines, and newspapers. (DF)

Described are the functions of the Captioned Films for the Deaf program, a free loan service of subtitled motion pictures similar in nature to the free loan service of Talking Books for the Blind. (SBH)

Development of film media to teach a dry cleaning program to deaf students at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind is described. (MC)

Described are media projects undertaken at the Midwest Regional Media Center for the Deaf which aimed at establishing clear learning objectives, promoting student involvement in the learning sequence, and developing evaluative criteria. (GW)

Summarizes three current issues in school law, including school district suits over potentially carcinogenic asbestos insulation, a California judge's finding that captionless educational television discriminates against hearing-impaired students, and the federal government's attempt to keep the Fairfax (Virginia) school system from charging…

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…

Discusses features of recent effective yearbooks that point toward trends of the 1980s: on-the-scene reporting, complete captions, mini-features or featurettes, expressive titles, contemporary graphics, more photographs, photojournalism, and avoidance of gimmicks. (GT)

The article describes how the use of the CPC-500 CaptionMaker (Computer Prompting Corporation) allows users to create their own captioned copies of any prerecorded signed or spoken videotape. Elementary school teachers using the program were uniformly favorable in their evaluations. (DB)

Using data from a previous study, this study investigated the adoption of modern graphic design techniques by daily newspapers. A scale of modern design was constructed from available literature and tested for internal validity by determining what design practices were included in sample papers. The scale was then used to test assumptions about…

The report considers ways of using television for instruction of blind, partially sighted, deaf, and hard of hearing children (5 to 16 years old). The introductory section reviews characteristics associated with the four types of handicapping conditions. The use of videorecorders, captioned programs, and closed circuit television is considered.…

Two books that use documentary photography to examine social problems--"You Have Seen Their Faces," a 1937 study of Southern sharecroppers by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, and "An American Exodus," a 1939 examination of the migration of farm families by Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor--are compared in this…

This booklet provides questions and answers for postsecondary educational institutions concerning provision of access and accommodations to individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing. Questions are about assistive listening devices (ALDs), C-Print technology, real-time captioning, and policy issues. Preliminary information concerns the mission…

Recommends a photo essay project as a catalyst for accelerated language learning and as a method of integrating mainstream students into a regular class activity. Divides the project into three stages: a planning stage, an acting out and picture taking stage, and a caption writing stage. (AEA)