title: Television and video technology in the education of deaf children.
abstract: This paper describes a survey into the use of television and related visual media in the education of hearing-impaired children in the UK. The main purpose of the survey was to furnish background information for the development of a low-cost video subtitling system for use in special schools and in units for hearing-impaired children in ordinary schools. An effective method of reducing cost is to base the system on equipment that schools and units already have. The survey indicates that domestic-type video recorders are becoming almost universal. Suitable microcomputers for running subtitling software are also widespread. Other results of the survey reveal: (i) widespread and fairly heavy usage of schools television programmes; (ii) the need for various visual aids and for considerable effort on the part of teachers in making the programmes accessible to hearing-impaired children; (iii) a significant demand for subtitling equipment; (iv) higher incidence of more sophisticated television equipment (video cameras, teletext receivers) and of human technical support in special schools than in hearing-impaired units.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D012574:Schools; D013690:Television; D006113:United Kingdom; D014741:Video Recording