Leveraging Community Partnerships to Provide Note Taking Services

Majority of deaf students focus on sign language interpreting or speech-to-text services to access instructional content and rely on someone to take notes. How do you know if note-taking at your institution is an effective accommodation for your deaf students? Despite note-taking being widely used on college campuses, there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

Work-Based Learning for Deaf Youth Webinar Recap

Work Based Learning (WBL) provides deaf students with opportunities to apply what they learn in the classroom to career settings, an important step for preparing them for life after high school.

The Idaho Food Truck Project: Where Are They Now?

This is a rectangular image of the kitchen area of a food truck. There are five people in the image. Three are wearing black T-shirts & two are wearing reddish color T-shirt. All have a black cap on their heads.

Our “Stories from the Field” piece details the transformation of a school bus into a fully functioning food truck,
where the students are the ones running the entire operation, with the invaluable support of the staff.

Creating Summer Camps for Deaf Youth

For deaf youth, summer camps bring opportunities to build relationships and strengthen skills for future endeavors. Whether they are day camps focused on coding, virtual programs in the arts, or overnight outdoor adventures, research shows that summer programs can have a significant positive impact on the lives of deaf youth.

Unveiling NDC’s New Digital Open Badges!

NDC open badges are here! Open badges are verifiable credentials earned by participation in and completion of NDC sponsored activities. Badges  are a visual representation of participant learning journeys, accomplishments, and mastery; and serve as documentation for engagement in online learning, webinars, and targeted activities.

New Resource Launch: Interactive Data Dashboard!

This image shows a group of three people looking at a laptop screen. There is a laptop on the table a male person appears to be browsing something on the laptop, while the other female sitting next to him while taking notes on a notepad. There is another female who appears to be standing behind them and looking at the laptop screen.

NDC’s Research and Data team will be releasing 2021 employment and education data via an interactive dashboard. These updated data provide a comprehensive overview of the most current data for deaf people in the United States, serving as a resource for community members, advocates, educators, researchers, and policymakers.

What Are Assistive Listening Systems?

This is a rectangular image showcasing the State Library Victoria. The library is an impressive architectural structure with grand pillars and a dome. In the foreground, a diverse group of people can be seen engaged in various activities, such as reading, studying, and browsing books. The atmosphere is vibrant and intellectual, with individuals from different backgrounds coming together to utilize the resources and spaces provided by the State Library Victoria.

The National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC) is hosting a webinar with Dr. Sarah Sparks on Nov 10 at 2:00 pm CT designed to help strengthen your understanding of assistive listening systems.

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