Student Led IEPs
Strong transition planning connects students, families, schools, and community partners to build access, expectations, and real-world readiness for deaf youth.
Coordinating Post-Production Practices
Choosing the right captioning approach helps campuses manage volume, control costs, and maintain high-quality captions across diverse media types.
Captioned Media Policies & Procedures
Campus-wide captioning policies clarify workflows, funding, and accountability so media accessibility is built into everyday operations instead of reactive accommodations.
Captioning Compliance and Standards
High-quality captions are essential for accessibility, learning, and legal compliance, ensuring deaf students receive communication equivalent to audio content.
Captioned Media
Captioned media ensures accessible video across campuses, reducing barriers, supporting universal design, and creating smoother, more sustainable access for everyone.
Connecting Deaf Youth with Mentors and Role Models
Strong mentor and role model relationships help deaf youth gain skills, confidence, belonging, and clearer paths toward education, careers, and community.
Music Classes
Hearing loss should not be the determining factor of whether a student will be able to participate and succeed in music classes. Effective accommodations can remove barriers and allow deaf students to equally participate. Here are some example questions: What is the student’s goal in taking this particular course? What is the student’s previous interactions […]
Campus Career Services
Strengthening Career Outcomes for Deaf Students Deaf college students face barriers to achieving career outcomes, even when they participate in internships and career services. Disabled graduates are also less likely to find jobs aligned with their field of study. To change this, career centers and disability services must work together to ensure access and build […]
Accommodations Meeting Template
Use this Template to Guide Your Meetings & Document Key Decisions This interactive form helps disability services staff engage in meaningful conversations with students about access, identify appropriate accommodations, and plan for implementation. It follows a four-step process—Build Understanding, Plan, Monitor, and Adjust—to support student success throughout the semester. You can complete this form electronically, […]
Evaluation Tool for Serving Deaf Students
Creating access for deaf students doesn’t start with a service request—it starts with your campus. While we often talk about “college readiness” for students, it’s just as important to ask: Is our institution ready to support deaf students effectively? Deaf students bring skills, experiences, and goals—but institutions must have the right structures, people, and practices in […]
Interactive Process
Disability services professionals play a critical role in ensuring deaf students have access through a collaborative, student-centered approach known as the interactive process. The interactive process is more than a checklist. It’s an ongoing conversation between the student and the disability services office to explore, implement, and adjust accommodations that provide effective communication access. This […]
Coordinating Communication Access: In-House, Agency, or Both
Scheduling interpreters and speech-to-text providers is more than a logistics task—it’s a key part of creating access for deaf students. Institutions may coordinate services in-house, contract with agencies, or use a hybrid approach.