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)

The introduction of closed captioned television in 1980 allows hearing impaired persons to have access to television as a source of news and entertainment, to text services, cable TV programs, and home video movies. Data on closed captioning sources and programing are detailed. (Author/DB)

Procedures used in real-time (live) television captioning are reviewed, and aspects of the captioning process, such as time delay, use of verbatim captions, targeted reading rates, ways to indicate changes in speakers, and accuracy are considered. Use of real-time captioning in closed-caption television in the classroom is noted. (CL)

Argues that the headlines and captions of student publications should be designed for maximum appeal. Offers examples of effective headlines and presents guidelines for writing attention-getting headlines and captions. (MM)

Describes recent technological developments which are making libraries increasingly accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired. (LLS)

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper describes the efforts of the Caption Center at television station WGBH to caption the television production "The scarlet Letter." Among the challenges for the captioners working on the project were the complex syntax and archaic vocabulary and difficulty in the…

The second half of a two-part article on layout and graphics presents an additional 12 suggestions for making print media attractive, including suggestions for headlines, captions, art placement, and handling copy. (AEA)

Describes the activities of the WGBH Caption Center in Boston as captions are prepared for the news and other television programs for the deaf. (CMV)

Offers tips to junior high school yearbook staff members for improvement in such areas as coverage of academics and student life, caption writing, layout, use of student art, and copy writing. (GT)

Discusses the use of natural language captions versus content analysis for retrieving multimedia data such as pictures. Topics addressed include using caption syntax; additional inferences from captions; supercaptions; integrating content analysis; and results of experiments on an expert system with pictures. (Contains 11 references.) (LRW)