Effect of caption rate on the comprehension of educational television programmes by deaf school students

Deafness and Education International

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 152-162

  Tyler, Michael D ^a   Jones, Caroline ^a,b   Grebennikov, Leonid ^a   Leigh, Greg ^c   Noble, William ^d   Burnham, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caption speed; Captions; Comprehension; Deaf children; Reading rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349324198     PISSN: 14643154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dei.262     Document Type: Article

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