eprintid: 10205643 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/20/56/43 datestamp: 2025-03-04 16:35:56 lastmod: 2025-03-04 16:35:56 status_changed: 2025-03-04 16:35:56 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Diaz-Cintas, Jorge creators_name: Palomo Lopez, Alicia title: Crafting accessible narratives: effective audio description of children's media ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C01 divisions: J42 divisions: J40 note: This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: 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. date: 2025-01-20 date_type: published publisher: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003291169-20 full_text_type: other language: eng verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2361885 isbn_13: 9781032270623 lyricists_name: Diaz-Cintas, Jorge lyricists_id: JDAAZ03 actors_name: Diaz-Cintas, Jorge actors_name: Kaltenbacher, Brigitte G actors_id: JDAAZ03 actors_id: BGKAL87 actors_role: owner actors_role: impersonator full_text_status: restricted place_of_pub: New York, NY, US pagerange: 230-243 isbn: 1032270624 book_title: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences editors_name: Díaz-Cintas, Jorge editors_name: Borodo, Michał citation: Diaz-Cintas, Jorge; Palomo Lopez, Alicia; (2025) Crafting accessible narratives: effective audio description of children's media. In: Díaz-Cintas, Jorge and Borodo, Michał, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences. (pp. 230-243). Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group: New York, NY, US. document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205643/1/D%C3%ADaz-Cintas_Crafting%20accessible%20narratives_AAM.pdf