Action for
Captions
Putting live captions into schools to support children’s learning.
Action for Captions is a pioneering project created by Sound Waves Foundation aiming to make education more accessible for deaf children in mainstream schools. SWF wants every school, college and university to have access to live captioning technology in all classrooms. Live captions is a speech-to-text AI technology which is easy to use and readily available for free, making it simple and cost effective
It is SWF's hope that this grassroots initiative kick-starts national change. Live captions has the potential to benefit many children where there is a real and urgent need to close the attainment gap:- those with special educational needs, English as an additional language and deafness, among many others.
18%
of school children
identified SEN
(1.7million)
78%
deaf children
attend mainstream
school
Increase in pupils
with identified SEN
but no EHCP
13.6%
Join the live captions community
Info pack here:
Download our information sheet to find out more about the benefits of using captions in education. Live captioning software is readily available for free, making it a simple and cost-effective tool for most schools to adopt. We have found that not many schools know about it and may not realise the importance of it.
Access the forum here:
Download our guides:
We have set up an online hub to help support schools, professionals and parents to implement live captions in school. Sign up to gain access to relevant software and hardware guides, FAQs, peer support and research. Plus, there are workshops for teachers and students to make the introduction of live captions easy.
It allows them to follow the thread of the lesson better
When people speak too fast, captions help me keep up with the conversation
If you miss something or didn't hear you can catch up by reading the captions
I want to keep live captioning in future - definitely, definitely, definitely.
Helpful for modelling how the spoken word translates to text
As a deaf child it definitely helped my ability to understand the teacher