1. Audiodescription in Italy Social, professional and linguisticaspects “Ifyou can see, look. Ifyou can look, observe”.(José Saramago,Blindness) Saveria Arma,UniversityofNaples Federico II

2. Blind people in Italy Between 352 k and 380 k blind people Nearly 1.500 k people with low vision Statistics (age, causes, geographicaldistribution) Social barriers

3. The ItalianLaw Disabilitylevels (newdecreeproposal: from 74% to 85% forcivildisabilitybenefits) Law 138/2001 (3rd April 2001) Aids and subsidies Parliamentaryhearing on audiovisualaccessibility (2010)

4. AD in Italy First AD ever: Spartacus (2001) AD at public TV (RAI) Percentageofprogramsaudiodescribed 2006-2009: up to 60% (actually, 35-38% !) 2010-2012: up to 60% (!) Typesofprogramsaudiodescribed Humanresourcesemployed Customersatisfaction Standards and guidelines

5. AD in Italy Cooperative Senza Barriere Onlus (Trento) AssociationConsequenze (Rome) AssociationBlindsightProject (Rome) Rome Fiction Fest(in July, in cooperationwithConsequenze, technicalsupportbySubTi) Rome Film Festival (in October) AssociationCinema senza Barriere (Rome, Milan, Bari) AssociationIsiviù (Messina)

6. AD in Italy Opera AD (Macerata, Elena di Giovanni) “L’isola dei sordobimbi” (Bologna, Silvia di Pasquale) Film Voices Project (Bologna)

7. AD asanacademic discipline Online Master on AVT (Universityof Parma) in 2010-2011 Master on AVT (SSLMIT Forlì) 2008-2009 Dissertations/Thesis on AD: L‘audiodescrizione, uno strumento per l'integrazione sociale del non vedente (Cinzia Antifona, 2000-2001) L'audio-descrizione per disabili visivi (Licia Pini, 2005) Il cinema per non udenti e non vedenti. Due casi di studio e un progetto. (Silvia de Pasquale, 2008-2009) La audiodescripciòn como traducciòn entre visual y hablado: el caso italiano en Comparaciòn con el modelo español (CarlottaBorelli, 2006-2007) “The PearTree Project”: un progetto di ricerca internazionale sull'audiodescrizione(Silvia Zirone, 2008-2009) The Languageof Audio Description. A corpus-basedinvestigationinto a LSP (Saveria Arma, 2011-2012?)

8. Linguisticaspects Ongoingresearch project: AD as a LSP TIWO project(citazione A. Salway) Corpus research EN /ITA Featuresof English AD language FeaturesofItalian AD language Relevance and objectivity (EN vs. IT)

9. Future (research) desiderata More investigationintolinguisticaspectsof AD language Reception Studies Investigationintoacademicapplications Enhanced AD production Partnerships

10. Thanks! vera.arma@gmail.comcomingsoon… www.audiodescrizione.it