Television captions for hearing-impaired people: A study of key factors that affect reading performance

Human Factors

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 452-463

  Thorn, Frank ^a,b   Thorn, Sondra ^a,b  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIOPTRIC BLUR; HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE; READING PERFORMANCE; TELEVISION CAPTIONS;

ERRORS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; LENSES; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; READING; REFRACTION ERROR; TELEVISION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; READING; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030249864     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872096778702006     Document Type: Article

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