OSEP 2008

CAPTIONS AND VIDEO DESCRIPTION:EDUCATIONAL TOOLS FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN

WITH DISABILITIES

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Our Purpose

• What we do with Television Access Grants for Hispanic children with disabilities. (H327C050008 H327C07000)

• Our Future Projections

Introduction by Judy

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Agenda

Hispanic Children with Disabilities Television Access Projects

Numbers The team

o About Closed Caption Latinao About the TV Networks o Our Advisory Group

Communications Activities Educational Guides Targeting Teachers and Parents-Sample

New Directions Library for Blind and Physically Impaired in Puerto Rico Digitized Stories for Deaf-Blind Children

Research Questions

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Students ages 6 - 21 with Disabilities Served Under IDEA, by Race / Ethnicity

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10

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70

Autism Visual Hearing Deaf-blindness

Hispanic White not Hispanic Black not HispanicA Indian/Al Native Asian/Pacific Islander

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Data Analysis System (DANS), OMB #1820 “Children with Disabilities Receiving Special Education Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education ACT,” 2006. Data updated as of July 15, 2007.

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Students ages 3 - 5 with Disabilities Served Under IDEA, by Race / Ethnicity

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70

Autism % Visual % Hearing % Deaf-blindness%

Hispanic White not Hispanic Black not Hispanic

A Indian/Al Native Asian/Pacific I slander

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Data Analysis System (DANS), OMB #1820 “Children with Disabilities Receiving Special Education Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education ACT,” 2006. Data updated as of July 15, 2007.

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Hispanic Children Ages 3 - 21

with Disabilities

Hispanic 33,199 6,101 19,009 351

White not Hispanic 173,394 17,328 44,111 993

Black not Hispanic 36,494 4,818 12,552 216

A Indian/Al Native 1,838 407 978 32

Asian/Pasific Islander 14,611 1,210 4,002 71

AutismVisual

ImpairmentHearing

ImpairmentDeaf-

blindness

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Data Analysis System (DANS), OMB #1820 “Children with Disabilities Receiving Special Education Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education ACT,” 2006. Data updated as of July 15, 2007.

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Hispanic Children Ages 6 - 21 with Disabilities by States with a Major Presence

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20

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50

60

Autism % Visual Imp. % Hearing Imp. %

Arizona

California

Florida

New Mexico

New York

Texas

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Data Analysis System (DANS), OMB #1820 “Children with Disabilities Receiving Special Education Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education ACT,” 2006. Data updated as of July 15, 2007.

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Hispanic Children Ages 3 - 5 with Disabilities by States with a Major Presence

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10

20

30

40

50

60

Autism Visual impaired HearingI mpaired

Arizona

California

Colorado

Florida

Nevada

New J ersey

New Mexico

New York

Texas

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Data Analysis System (DANS), OMB #1820 “Children with Disabilities Receiving Special Education Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education ACT,” 2006. Data updated as of July 15, 2007.

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Hispanic Profile

Parents High Illiteracy Rate Lack of Participation by Parents in the Educational Process Language Barriers

Children Don’t have a Strong Linguistic Foundations Don’t receive Support from Parents in their Educational

Process Don’t receive Prompt Attention Don’t receive Appropriate Materials. Available Resources

(Books, Videos, Audiovisual Material with Captions) are in English

Judy’s Summary

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Do Spanish dominant children with disabilities have equal access to programs offered to their English-speaking counter parts?

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Television Access Projects (H327C050008 H327C07000)

Numbers The team

About Closed Caption Latina

About the TV Networks Our Advisory Group Communications

Activities Educational Guides

Targeting Teachers and Parents- Sample

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We have completed 1500 hours of captions and video description on Spanish language educational programs since October, 2005

Data Base: 1000 Schools, 160 Organizations,100 Other Institutions and Individuals.

The Numbers

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Closed Caption Latina

In Bogotá, Colombia, since 2002 providing captions, subtitling and dubbing

In Longwood, Florida, since 2005 providing captions, subtitling, dubbing, video description, and CART in Spanish.

Creating technological solutions for accessibility on audiovisual mediaPromoting accessibility projects in USA, Colombia, and Puerto RicoSeeking to facilitate the accessibility in the classroomEncouraging accessibility at theme parks, museums, theaters and other activities

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Networks

Educational programs are broadcasted on:

Veme, HITN,TuTV, Sorpresa, WAPA Networks. They all have nation-wide coverage.

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Consumer Advisory Group

Who they are…

People with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities, educators, and specialists in education and audiovisual media

Here they are!

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Activities of The CAG

Provide Quality Control Analyze Educational Content Conduct Workshop to Receive Feedback and Collect

Suggestions

Educational Guides Targeting Teachers and Parents

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Communications

Video Clips of Programming Videos and Audio Clips of Services Brochure Exhibitions and Presentations

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New Directions

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Library For Blind And Physically Impaired In Puerto Rico

Material exchange between libraries Needs Analysis:

Training for teachers and librarians on usage of available resources

Educational guides to be used in the classroom

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Do teachers servicing Spanish dominant children with disabilities have access to quality professional development?

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Digitized Stories

The use of video description and subtitling promotes reading to the deaf-blind children

We encourage the use of this resources as support for deaf-blind children as well as an educational tool for children with autism…

Juanita

To develop Spanish and English materials, research of the effectiveness in the classroom …

Sample

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Do digitized, captioned and described books have an impact on literacy development for deaf-blind children?Does it create a cognitive overload?

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• Questions and Answers

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