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Captioning Software
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Captioned Videotapes
- ULTimate CaptionWorks is captioning software for the Macintosh designed with input from educators of deaf students and from students themselves. Open captions can be any color, any size, any font, and placed anywhere on the screen. The text may be placed in a traditional box or in a cartoon bubble with a pointer to the speaker. Besides text, captions can include graphics. Special equipment is needed.
Contact
Universal Learning Technology
39 Cross Street
Peabody, MA 01960
Tel: (508) 538-0036 (voice)
(508) 538-3110 (TTY)
Fax: (508) 531-0192
- QuickCaption School is a child-friendly text editor with built-in captioning capability. It creates open captions and is designed for younger students or those new to keyboarding and word processing. Its main feature is extra-large text; there are no word processing functions besides cursor movements. This software is for DOS on the PC.
Contact
Geoff Freed
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
Tel: (617) 300-3400 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (617) 300-1035
- QuickCaption for Word is software for creating open-captioned videotapes. It operates with Microsoft Word, using Windows 3.x or Windows 95. Students and teachers create text and add it to videotape using specialized equipment.
Contact
Geoff Freed
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
Tel: (617) 300-3400 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (617) 300-1035
- CAP-Media Tools is software that allows users without extensive computer experience to create interactive media. The software consists of captioning and authoring tools. The source can be laserdisc, digital video, CD audio, or digital audio; videotapes must be converted to digital video before they can be captioned. The software operates within Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. An eight-minute videotape demonstrates CAP-Media Tools, its instructional uses, and the importance of accessible media.
Contact
CAP-Media, Inc.
5234 Killens Pond Road
Felton, DE 19943
Tel: (302) 678-1877 (voice/TTY/fax)
Books on Videotape
- This free loan service, Captioned Films/Videos Program, provides open-captioned films and videotapes ranging from educational titles to Hollywood releases. The educational collection contains 3,000 curriculum-based titles, to which 100 new titles are added annually. Each videotape is accompanied by a teacher's guide. All users must register before borrowing.
Contact
Captioned Films/Videos Program
National Association of the Deaf
1447 East Main Street
Spartanburg, SC 29307
Tel: (800) 237-6213 (voice)
(800) 237-6819 (TTY)
Fax: (800) 538-5636
Books on CD-ROM
- The Novel Signs project has produced a set of ASL videotapes for students, that are literal, unabridged translations of fiction. Each title includes a videotape, the original book, and a teacher's guide. The Napping House (22 minutes), a classic children's picture book for young readers, is signed and dramatized by students. Tuck Everlasting is a five-hour videotape set.
Contact
Doris Corbo or Alexandra Hans
Horace Mann School for the Deaf
and Hard of Hearing
40 Armington Street
Allston, MA 02134
Tel: (617) 635-8534 (voice)
(617) 783-3664 (TTY)
Fax: (617) 635-7942
- The Kansas School for the Deaf has produced a series of videotapes, Visual Storyreading in American Sign Language, that provides deaf students with opportunities to see books presented in ASL. The school researched criteria for selecting books to be read and developed suggestions for translating those books from English into ASL for preschool through middle school. A team of native signers collaborates on the translations and signs them on videotape. The first series of 25 videotapes is complete and more are in production.
Contact
Pam Carson Shaw
Kansas School for the Deaf
450 East Park Street
Olathe, KS 66061
Tel: (913) 791-0573 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (913) 791-0577
Personal Communication
- Based on Pat Hutchins' picture book for young children, Rosie's Walk is told in text, voice, ASL, and signed English--complete with animations and sounds. Developed by a multimedia team at the Texas School for the Deaf, the CD-ROM is available for Macintosh and PC platforms. The package includes a teacher's guide, a user's guide, an activities book, and both a word and picture flipbook. Other CD-ROMs are in production.
Contact
Gerald Pollard
Texas School for the Deaf
P.O. Box 3538
1102 South Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78764
Tel: (512) 462-5353 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (512) 462-5313
ASL Resource Software
- The Personal Communicator is a CD-ROM to help deaf students communicate with hearing people, using either a laptop or stationary computer. Users can see video of an interpreter signing, or hear the computer speak a word or phrase while they see the written word(s) on the screen. The four primary interlinked components include ways to communicate with others, check word meanings and signs, access previous conversations, and store various modes of writing. Version 2.0 is available for both Macintosh and Windows.
Contact
Cindy Greenwood
Comm Tech Lab
Communication Arts and Sciences Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Tel: (517) 355-3410 (voice)
(517) 353-0722 (TTY)
Fax: (517) 432-1244
- StreetSigns: A City Kid's Guide to American Sign Language is computer software on CD-ROM that includes more than 650 words divided into 24 thematic categories inspired by the Big Apple. For example, on "Wall Street," users find number signs and at the "United Nations," signs for foreign countries. Users click on a vocabulary word and then see a video clip of the corresponding sign demonstrated by a student.
Contact
Susan Abdulezer
Junior High School 47
225 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel: (212) 679-1360 (voice)
(212) 481-0300 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (212) 679-1358
- One thousand basic ASL signs in QuickTime video from three angles are available in The Multimedia Dictionary of American Sign Language CD-ROM This CD-ROM also supports finger-spelling skills through graphically-rendered signs for the letters of the alphabet and for numbers one through ten. Students at Oregon School for the Deaf created this CD-ROM, with help from Intel Corporation and Apple Computer.
Contact
Robert Scheffel
DeafTECH
Oregon School for the Deaf
999 Locust Street, NE
Salem, OR 97304
Tel: (503) 378-2257 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (503) 373-7879
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