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How Marlee Matlin helped bring closed captioning to America

by Diana Chan

In 1927, the television was invented: for the first time in human history, technology allowed for a way to transmit information visually. That could have been a breakthrough for Deaf communities"but it took more than 40 years for captioning experiments to even begin, and it wasn't until the end of the century that subtitles became […] The post How Marlee Matlin helped bring closed captioning to America appeared fir…

SOURCE: PBS at 1:13pm on October 14, 2025