Learn about the first awareness-building campaign to focus on description as an accessibility tool for students with a visual impairment and a great educational resource for students without a visual impairment.
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Section l: The Fennec Fox Section 2: Listening Section 3: Description
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Listening is Learning is a joint initiative of the Described and Captioned Media Program and the American Council of the Blind with the purpose of raising awareness about the educational benefits of listening to description.
Description-themed contests and events designed to promote awareness about the benefits of listening to described media!
Posters! Events! Contests! So many different ways to get involved with LIL and we’re always looking for more ideas, so drop us a line, and let us know what sort of listening-related activity or promotional idea would be a great addition to our collection!
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Movies, videos, and other forms of multimedia are integral to public, private, and special education curriculum. For young people who can't see or can't see well, audio description provides access to all the visual images of the movies that young people who are sighted enjoy.
Focusing on sources of educational media available with description.
Audio description, video description, descriptive video, DVS®, English for the Visually Impaired, narrative video many names for this essential accessibility feature.
Information for the professional and the amateur.
Description expands the effectiveness of video-based media in the classroom and appeals to diverse learners.
