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Captions and Video Description: Educational Tools For Hispanic Children With Disabilities

Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities. Television Access, OSEP H327C100008. March, 2014

Agenda

• Dicapta Overview

• Hispanic Children with Disabilities in the US• Television Access. (H327C100008) Captions and Video

Description: Educational Tools. Goals, Findings, Challenges and Projections

• Other Projects an Collaborations

• Services include captions, video description, Digital Talking Books , CART, subtitles, dubbing, real time dubbing, remote simultaneous translation, educational productions.

• Funded by OSEP since 2005 to provide captioning and video description in Spanish. Television Access- H327C100008

• Serving the Hispanic community since 2001

Dicapta

Hispanic Children with Disabilities

• Don’t have a strong linguistic foundations

• Don’t receive support from parents in their educational process

• Don’t receive prompt attention

• Don’t receive appropriate materials. Available Resources (Books, Videos, Audiovisual Material with Captions) are in English


• Production: To provide high quality video description and captioning

• Assessment: Guidelines for Educational content evaluation

• Outreach: Dissemination Workshops, PTA partnerships, Educational Guides

Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities. Television Access, OSEP H327C100008. March, 2.014

The main goal of the project is to provide video description and captioning for 900 hours of programming ( 5-years period) appropriate for use in a classroom setting in service to Hispanic children who are either deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision.

• Project Officer:Jo Ann McCann

• Key Personnel:Amanda CadenaLourdes FiallosCarol Colmenares

• Project Director:María Victoria Díaz


• Advisory Board

Testimonies

Captions and Video Description: Educational Tools

Production: To provide high quality video description and captioning

• Partnership with networks (Vme, HITN, TuTV , Semillitas)Challenges: New partnerships

• Producing Captions and Video Description Findings: Local talent, local production (quality, cost, neutral Spanish)

• Quality Control : Keeping track

Total hours up to February 28, 2.014 : 694 description and 318 of captioning




Production: To provide high quality video description and captioning

• Projections: To identify new partners

Partnership with producers (Plaza Sesamo)NatGeo

• News: Training in steno the experienceNew production resources




• Findings: Educational content evaluation booklet

Extended benefits for other collaboration projects

Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities.

Television Access, OSEP H327C100008. March, 2014

Assessment: To evaluate programs included in the project for their educational value.



Outreach: Dissemination component

• Educational Guides Findings : New guides in place..





Findings: • Workshop Let's go to the movies

Benefits of caption and video descriptionAvailability of the services Regulation

Technical details to turn the services onEducational Guides

A data base with contact information of 500 people is available to start different strategies.




Outreach: Dissemination componentOur new web site including clips and information of the programming.

No services but solutions oriented Access to VisualsAccess to AudioLanguage CustomizationEducational Productions





Dicapta Facebook, blog

You tube : captions and descriptions

• Taking advantage of the interaction among the different elements to build a community ( social networking)




Dicapta You Tube

Spreading the word


Dicapta Web site

DisseminationResourcesOrganizations




Projections: • To determined based on our discussions

• Strategies for new venues and workshops



The power of sharing resources

Dicapta Partnerships and Collaborations

Tools for Education

The Described and Captioned Media Program The Video Description Research and Development GroupThe National Center on Deaf-Blindness


Tools for Dissemination

• The Family Center on Technology and Disability

Isabel needs ATAT : An Overview to the Assesment for ATPSA on Video Description

• Center on Technology & Disability (5 years project)

• Collaboration with Federal Deaf- blind projects : Florida, NY, NCDB,California

http://www.fctd.info/

International Collaborations

Educational Content:ILCE-MéxicoEDUCAR- ArgentinaCanal Capital-ColombiaRTVC-ColombiaMincultura -ColombiaUdeA-ColombiaUNAD-Colombia


Organizations: Unión Latinoamericana de Ciegos- ULACEscuela Colombiana de Rehabiitación

CESyA –España

Dicapta Fundation

Exciting News!

WhatsCinema

Universal DesignIncluding everyoneLow cost platformFor education and entertainment

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Captions and Video Description: Educational Tools For Hispanic Children With Disabilities Captions and Video Description: Educational Tools For Hispanic