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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The American Council of the Blind (ACB) is proud to reveal the winners of the 2011 “Young Described Film Critic” Awards, a “Listening Is Learning” initiative of the Council’s Audio Description Project (ADP) and the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP).

The winners of this year’s honors are:

Senior Category (ages 15 to 18) (*two* First Place awards — a tie):

• First Place – Chante Richardson, El Paso, TX (University of Texas at El Paso) for her review of “Beauty and the Briefcase”

• First Place – Kimberly Kim, New York, NY (Lavelle School) for her review of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”

Junior Category (ages 11 to 14):

• First Place – Rebecca Baumgarten, Schertz, TX (J. Frank Dobie, Jr. High School) for her reviews of “The Return of the King,” “The Two Towers,” and “The Fellowship of the Ring”

The premise of the Young Described Film Critic program is simple: kids love movies. If a young person can’t see or can’t see well, audio description provides access to all the visual images of the movies that their sighted peers enjoy. Description benefits children who are blind and others who have learning disabilities and it has been shown to boost literacy for all children.

The Young Described Film Critic program asked young people who are blind or have low vision to submit short reviews of any described movie.

“Audio Description uses words that are succinct, vivid, and imaginative to convey the visual image

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