LD News: Captioned Media

An article released by the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTi) and Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITeD) discuss how captioned or subtitled media can help students who struggle with LD or reading issues to increase their:

• reading speed,
• word knowledge,
• decoding,
• vocabulary acquisition,
• word recognition,
• reading comprehension, and
• oral reading rates.

For more information regarding their research findings, please read the article: Captioned Media: Literacy Support for Diverse Learners