Action for
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Putting live captions into schools to support children’s learning.
Join a growing number of schools that are turning on live captioning in their classrooms.
Click here to find out more about the difference it can make.
Read our introduction to Live Captions to help you get started.
Get the guides. Find, select and download the most appropriate free live captioning software for your classroom and needs.
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Be supported and be part of the live captioning community!
Join the forum and share your experiences whilst drawing from the wealth of shared knowledge.
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)
Increase in pupils
with identified SEN
but no EHCP
13.6%
78%
deaf children
attend mainstream
school
Join the live captions community
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.
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.
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Teacher
It allows them to follow the thread of the lesson better
Student
As a deaf child it definitely helped my ability to understand the teacher
Student
I want to keep live captioning in future - definitely, definitely, definitely.
Teacher
Helpful for modelling how the spoken word translates to text
Student
If you miss something or didn't hear you can catch up by reading the captions