Over time children's educational television has successfully modified programming to incorporate research-based strategies to facilitate learning and engagement during viewing. However, research has been limited on whether these same strategies would work with preschool deaf children viewing videos in American Sign Language. In a descriptive…

A survey examined: (1) the needs classroom teachers seek to fill with instructional video; (2) the design features best suited to meeting those needs; and (3) whether current productions possess such features and meet such needs. Ninety-seven instructors (out of 275) from eight Colorado high schools responded to the survey. Initial attitudes…

This report presents a pioneering effort in the use of television in bringing to a particular sub-population, the disadvantaged, the particular kinds of information which could dispel ignorance in certain key informational areas. From information gathered by a 337-item questionnaire covering demographic characteristics, attitudes, communication…