Continuing in this vein. this reauthorization would allow star schools funds to be used to make programs accessible to the disabled through mechanisms such as closed captioning and descriptive video services. Captioning has long been held to have beneficial effects for populations other than the deaf and hardofhearing television viewers. Closed captioning improves the reading skills of children learning to read. adults struggling to overcome illiteracy. and immigrants and their children learning English as a second language. Closed or open captioning of star schools courses would greatly expand their benefits to a variety of populations. In addition. funds may be used for descriptive video services (DVS] which extends the principle of equal access to visually impaired individuals.
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