General Captioning Information:

Laws and Regulations:

Contact your senator
FCC Captioning Rules

Section 508 Home Page
The Americans with Disabilities Act
The DTV Transition
W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines

Associations and Organizations:

AARP
Reading is Fundamental
National Institute for Literacy
Better Hearing Institute
American Speech- Language- Hearing Association (ASHA)
National Association of the Deaf
Telecommunications for the Deaf
Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technologies
Association of Late-Deafened Adults
Alexander Graham Bell Assocation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons
American Society for Deaf Children
Assistive Technology Industry Association
Center for Hearing Loss Help
Comcare
Communication Service for the Deaf
Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf
Deaf Seniors of America
Gallaudet University
Inclusive Technologies
InSight Cinema
International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
League for the Hard of Hearing
National Black Deaf Advocates
National Court Reporters Association
National Cued Speech Association
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
World Institute on Disability

Captions and Literacy Articles:

The DCMP “Read Captions Across America” Program
Using Television for Literacy Skills
Television Captions as a Vehicle for Literacy
Closed Captions, A Valuable Educational Tool
Earth 360 Article - Teaching with Captions
Research on Educational Captioning

Captioning for ESL students:

Television Goes to School by EDC’s Center for Children and Technology
Closed captioned prompt rates: their influences on reading outcomes
Closed Captioned TV: A Resource for ESL Literacy Education by Carolyn Parks