Staging the Audio Describer: An Exploration of Integrated Audio Description
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2018 This article explores the phenomenon of integrated audio description (AD) and the ways in which access provision for blind people can be embedded into the creative process.
Louise Fryer
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Erasure or over-exposure? Finding the balance in describing diversity
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2023 The shift in media access solutions from reactive to proactive approaches identified by Greco (2016) can be seen in the Audio Description (AD) of human characteristics.
Louise Fryer
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“Why can’t you wear black shoes like the other mothers?” Preliminary investigation on the Italian language of audio description [PDF]
, 2012 According to ITC guidelines (2000), audio description should be as objective as possible, provide only relevant information, avoid any personal judgement and patronising attitude.
Arma, Saveria
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Museums as disseminators of niche knowledge: Universality in accessibility for all [PDF]
, 2019 Accessibility has faced several challenges within audiovisual translation Studies and gained great opportunities for its establishment as a methodologically and theoretically well-founded discipline. Initially conceived as a set of services and practices
Rizzo A
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel +5 more
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Translating multisemiotic texts: The case of audio introductions for the performing arts
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2021 In the field of Media Accessibility, audio introductions (AIs) are usually approached as an addition to audio description (AD) services for the blind and visually impaired.
Nina Reviers +2 more
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Narration or description: What should audio description “look” like? [PDF]
, 2012 Like the various forms of audiovisual translation (AVT), ‘audio films’ are a hybrid, consisting of both the original film and an audio description (AD) inserted into it as a voice-over that provides the listener with a substitute for the visual content.
Mälzer-Semlinger, Nathalie
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Por una preparación de calidad en accesibilidad audiovisual [PDF]
, 2007 Subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing (SDH) and audio description for the blind and the partially sighted (ad) are two professional activities with a very recent history both in Spain as well as in other countries.
Diaz-Cintas, J
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Functional Connectivity Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Minor Stroke
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Patients with minor stroke exhibit slowed processing speed and generalized alterations in functional connectivity involving frontoparietal cortex (FPC). The pattern of connectivity evolves over time. In this study, we examine the relationship of functional connectivity patterns to cognitive performance, to determine ...
Vrishab Commuri +7 more
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Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani +8 more
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