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New televisions are now required to include a closed captioning decoder. Over 24 million Americans who have hearing disabilities will certainly benefit from this recently passed law. The hearing impaired and deaf communities aren’t the only ones benefiting from this law. No matter
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A top audiologist who works at a preschool claims that closed captioning on television allows those with hearing disabilities access to an entire world they had previously been denied access to. Television made no sense to children with profound hearing loss. Even minor hearing troubles can interfere with a child?s ability to concentrate on the television. Sounds are continuously distorted for them. Closed captioning for television has a profound impact on the deaf community, ranking with the TDD or telecommunication device for the deaf, which takes words spoken into a phone and translates them to written word for the person to read.

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