Stresses the importance of visual literacy for future communicators. (RB)

The conference reports contain summaries of five general sessions and five appended papers, all of which focus on the need and implementation of captioned television for the aurally handicapped. The keynote address states that approximately 10% of the population has hearing problems, indicating that there is a large minority group involved. The…

Suggests ideas for improving the quality of high school yearbooks with emphasis on an appropriate theme for the school, accurate reporting of the year's events, and careful attention to layout. (RB)

Forty-two deaf children, eight- to 12-years-old and randomly divided into two groups, viewed the television program "Shazam" without captions (Group 1) and with captions at a simple language level (Group 2). Results indicated that captions enhance perception of emotional complexity by deaf children. (Author/MC)

The effect of a captioned and a signed visual training aid to teach 60 deaf college students cardiopulmonary resuscitation was studied. (Author/SW)

Ss either saw the film twice, read the script twice, or read the script and saw the film with target words stressed by the teacher in all cases. Posttests indicated that Ss who both read the script and saw the film had the greatest increase in number of words recognized. (DB)

Explores the influence of captions on acquisition of pictorial information and two types of verbal information by hearing-impaired viewers. Findings indicated that the pictorial aspect of the material neither hindered nor enhanced learning; however, the language level of captions can affect performance of certain tasks. Twenty references are…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper describes a project to utilize the Line 21 technique (a closed captioning device which, when fitted to television screens, permits captions to appear on the screen in programs so prepared) for real time, that is live television, captioning. (PHR)

Hearing impaired students (11 to 18 years old) who read at second, third, and fourth grade levels viewed five versions of three children's television programs. Results indicated that as the pattern of linguistic complexity of the captions increased, Ss' comprehension scores declined. (Author)

Points to errors frequently committed by student journalists in writing yearbook photograph captions and designing graphics. (GT)

Evaluation of effects of real-time captions on working memory of college students with either deafness or normal hearing found that captioning of videotapes produced improved performance for both groups. There was a significant effect for hearing type (hearing students performed better than deaf students) and number of captioned lines (four lines…

With the assistance of the Canadian Captioning Development Agency, TVOntario has undertaken to determine the efficacy of applying closed-captioned television to the needs of adult learners who are not hearing impaired. In this research study, actual and potential applications of closed-captioned television for hearing audiences in Canada, the…

Intended to promote the effective use of captioned media in the education of hearing impaired students, the manual contains theoretical and historical background information about captioning, illuminates major issues in the field of captioning (e.g., edited versus verbatim captioning and the need to teach caption-reading skills), and offers…

Library film services for the hearing-impaired are discussed. Captioned and nonverbal films are defined, and a discussion of changing attitudes that resulted in integrated showing of these films is presented. Pointers on how to integrate, and sources of information on films for the hearing-impaired are also included. (MBR)

The selection of educational films for the Captioned Films program for deaf persons is a curriculum process that involves educators from 25 schools across America. (Author/IM)