Subtitles do not guarantee hearing-impaired viewers a total comprehension of television messages
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 02:50
in Psychology & Sociology
After almost twenty years since the first television subtitles were used, professors Cristina Cambra, Nuria Silvestre and Aurora Leal, members of the UAB Research Centre on Hearing Impairment and Language Acquisition (GISTAL), were interested in discovering whether deaf viewers - the main users of this service - actually can understand the programmes, find it easy to read subtitles and understand the messages transmitted through the images...
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