Education
Affordable media accessibility solutions for the classroom, web, graduation ceremonies, training videos, school district meetings, and more!
The landscape of education is ever-changing.
The National Captioning Institute (NCI) helps your staff and students receive the most up-to-date accessibility options for in-person and online classes and ensures that your institution meets all federal requirements.
We have thriving successful partnerships with education clients from public school districts and junior colleges to Ivy League universities.
Educational Services
Educational Uses
Top Five Advantages of Captioning in the Classroom
1. Improves Reading Comprehension
On average, children spend over 30 hours per week watching television. By turning captions on, parents can turn those entertainment hours into learning hours. A 1984 NCI study showed that hearing youngsters who watched captioned TV were able to significantly improve their vocabulary and oral reading fluency. While children are watching cartoons, videos, and sitcoms, they can also be reading the captions -- making it an interactive experience.
2. Greatly Benefits ESL Students and Teachers
Studies on teaching English as a Second Language and personal accounts of ESL instructors have all come to the same conclusion: captioned television improves reading and listening comprehension, vocabulary, word recognition and overall motivation to read among students who are learning English as a second language.
Captions help ESL students learn to differentiate between words that sound alike, understand syntax or the arrangement of words in sentences in each language, decipher accents and dialects, and much more!
3. Boosts Student Confidence
Studies show that subtitles and captioning can help strengthen reading skills, with improvement in reading comprehension, oral reading rates, word recognition, vocabulary acquisition, decoding, and reading speed and fluency.
Captioned television increases self-confidence as comprehension improves. Prior preparation — including class discussion and related hand-out materials — coupled with captions that highlight important keywords result in the overall highest performance.
4. Enhances Test Scores
Captions in educational videos have been shown to improve student GPAs, helping students focus more and take better notes. The overall boost in vocabulary and reading comprehension translates directly into student testing confidence and higher test scores!
5. Is Required by Law
Section 508 is a federal law that requires agencies, schools included, to provide individuals with disabilities equal access to electronic information and data comparable to those who do not have disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency.
Educational and training videos are required to have captioning, per both the American Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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