%0 Book Section %A Diaz-Cintas, Jorge %A Palomo Lopez, Alicia %B The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences %C New York, NY, US %D 2025 %E Díaz-Cintas, Jorge %E Borodo, Michał %F discovery:10205643 %I Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group %P 230-243 %T Crafting accessible narratives: effective audio description of children's media %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205643/ %X This chapter provides a literature review of research conducted on audio description (AD), highlighting its use for language learning and development purposes among blind and visually impaired (BVI) children, who can benefit from being regularly exposed to this professional practice. Bearing in mind its didactic potential, the focus rests on how AD can support language acquisition and contribute to extending BVI children’s vocabulary range, in particular, through the use of echolalia. A number of recommendations are put forward to draft audio description scripts that result in more enjoyable and accessible productions, by placing special emphasis on the language register being used, the way in which sound effects are described, the role of songs in children’s productions, the weaving of filmic language to describe scenes and the importance of voice delivery among others. %Z This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.