[blindkid] Fwd: Educational Media with Audio Description

Carol Castellano blindchildren at verizon.net
Fri Nov 21 20:52:50 UTC 2008


>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:21:01 -0500
>From: "Thomas Lohman" <tlohman at dcmp.org>
>Subject: Educational Media with Audio Description
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>Thread-topic: Educational Media with Audio Description
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>Greetings,
>
>I am writing to you from the Described and 
>Captioned Media Program (DCMP – 
>http://www.dcmp.org), a U.S. Department of 
>Education-funded nonprofit organization that 
>provides free-loan captioned and described 
>educational media to teachers, parents, and 
>others involved with educating K­12 students who 
>are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind.
>
>Recently, we released the Description Key for 
>Educational Media 
>(http://www.descriptionkey.org). The Key was 
>developed through a two-year partnership between 
>the DCMP and American Foundation for the Blind 
>(AFB) Educational Policy personnel (for more on 
>the development of the Description Key, please 
>visit the “About the Description Key” page at 
>http://www.descriptionkey.org/about_d.html).
>
>It has long fallen upon teachers and parents to 
>render visual information in videos and pictures 
>into words. Description (also known as “audio 
>description,” “video description,” “descriptive 
>video,” and “English for the visually 
>impaired”)­like captions for people who are deaf 
>or hard of hearing­frees these teachers and 
>parents from their interpretive role, and allows 
>them to utilize visual media as they would with 
>children who did not have vision or hearing 
>loss. The process of conveying this visual 
>information, however, needs to be consistent. 
>The Description Key is the first set of 
>guidelines to specifically address the 
>description of educational media for use by 
>students who are blind or visually impaired.
>
>Please help us to spread the word­to those 
>involved with purchasing media for use in 
>schools as well as those tasked with creating 
>media­that your children and students deserve 
>equal access. Also, if you are a parent or 
>educator of a K­12 student who is blind, 
>visually impaired, or deaf-blind, you may sign 
>up for a free DCMP account 
>(http://www.dcmp.org/Register.aspx) and begin 
>utilizing our collection of accessible media today!
>
>Please contact me via any of the methods in my 
>signature if you have any questions or comments about the DCMP.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Thom Lohman
>Communication Services Specialist
>Described and Captioned Media Program
><http://www.dcmp.org/>www.dcmp.org
>
>Phone: (800) 237-6213 ext. 222
>TTY: (800) 237-6819 "Thom"
>AIM: dcmpthom
>Google Talk: dcmpthom
>E-Mail: <mailto:tlohman at dcmp.org?subject=Signature%20Reply>tlohman at dcmp.org
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