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Hearing loss affects more than 28 million Americans. Captions and transcripts allow the content of web audio and video to be accessible to those who are aurally impaired, and more broadly, to those who do not have access to audio, or who are in a quiet setting. I liked that this site was more of a how to as well. I also found it really interesting that adding captions to videos made people, with or without hearing difficulties, much more likely to watch the entire video.

Thanks to Lesley, I have made improvements in adding a variety of ways students can access contnent in my gym classes. The next step I want to take is accomodating students with language barriers. It has been a lot of work so far, but it has been very rewarding.

I have a hearing impaired student in my classroom and we have made enormous changes with the class and the cottage in order to accommodate his learning and living environment. It has been challenging and surprising at how many of the residents have embrassed ASL with zeal.