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)

The study matched two groups of 20 deaf pupils on their pre-exposure knowledge of information contained in a televised film, with and without captions. (Author)

Two captioned affective films from the AIT series Inside/Out were tested with 14 intermediate (ages 13 to 15) and 39 elementary (ages 11 and 12) hearing impaired children at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind. Measures of attention, post-film discussion, student comprehension, and student and teacher opinions were taken to determine the…

The use of Captioned Entertainment Films' movie classics as language arts aids for deaf students is discussed in terms of thought organization, reading skills, and language and composition development. (CL)

Describes services of the outreach program offered at the Illinois School for the Deaf Media Center. Highlights include captioned films and videos; outreach videos; computer software; parents' library; curriculum library; and information on any issue connected with deafness. (LRW)

Local libraries have resources suitable for children with disabilities which include high-interest, low-vocabulary books for children with reading problems; meeting space, speakers or materials for special interest parent groups; nonprint materials such as films and toys; and captioned motion pictures for the deaf. (SB)

PREPARED BY THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OF THE DEAF, THE BOOKLET EXPLAINS PROGRAMS SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING DEAF CHILDREN AND YOUTH TO DEVELOP THEIR TALENTS AND PREPARE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP. SEVERAL SCHOOLS ARE DISCUSSED, SOME ESTABLISHED (GALLAUDET COLLEGE)…

Presented are the proceedings of a conference dealing with individualizing instruction for the deaf through greater use of educational media to permit the deaf student to progress at a maximum learning rate. Included are a report on the year's activities of Media Services and Captioned Films, and keynote addresses by James J. Gallagher on the…

The list of services includes religious workers, 20 American or organizations of and for the deaf, and 12 educational, rehabilitative, or professional services. Government sponsored research projects and graduate theses on deaf education are enumerated; a review of publications and a bibliography of periodicals on deafness are provided; a…

A Film Evaluation Checklist, developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, describes instructionally relevant film characteristics. The instrument is organized in terms of structural characteristics of the medium, modes of concept emphasis using film techniques, and organization of instructional material. Raters independently rated…

From September 1966 through August 1972, the Midwest Regional Media Center for the Deaf was under contract to Media Services and Captioned Films, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, and from September 1972 through August 1974, the center had a grant with the same federal agency to provide media services to 12 states--North Dakota, South…

The study examined the relationship between and instructional effectiveness of visuals and captions in videotape/film instruction for 32 hearing-impaired students (10-14 years old). Results showed that scores of students viewing visuals plus captions were significantly higher than those of students seeing either visuals or captions alone.…

This report describes the expansion of services by the Texas School for the Deaf, as it develops the Educational Resource Center on Deafness to serve students and professionals throughout the state. The Center provides service functions in the following nine areas: statewide assessment center for the hearing impaired (including comprehensive…

Nine selected proceedings from a study institute discuss program alternatives for the education of deaf mentally retarded (MR) children along with such related issues as identification, size and scope of the problem, instructional approaches, curricular planning, instructional media, program funding sources, and vocational rehabilitation. The…

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)