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Peer reviewedLewis, Margaret S. Jelinek; Jackson, Dorothy W. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2001
This study assessed deaf and hearing students' comprehension of captions with and without visuals/video. Results indicate that reading grade level is highly correlated with caption comprehension test scores. Comprehension of the deaf students was consistently below that of hearing students. The captioned video produced significantly better…
Descriptors: Captions, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Media Literacy
