Chris’ Story: Accessibility of Online Training
Some of the barriers deaf professionals face, sometimes are for example, my institute requires ongoing training in different areas such as FERPA, HIPAA, privacy laws, how to protect ourselves, and so forth.
Mark’s Story: Captioning Online Classes
Throughout my experience here, coming back to UT in 2013, my request has been respected. They’ve always agreed to my requests. I remember the first class I took was an online psychology class, with like 800 students and it was online, and I worked with the head of the psychology department and the student services office.
Karla’s Story: Challenges of Hybrid Learning
Karla’s Story: Challenges of Hybrid Learning: Currently in my PhD program, I have interpreters. The program itself is hybrid.
Deafverse FAQ: How can NDC support you?
How can National Deaf Center support you?
Deafverse FAQ: What’s in your Deafverse backpack?
What’s in your Deafverse Backpack?
Deafverse FAQ: How does Deafverse fit into my classroom?
How does Deafverse fit into your classroom?
Deafverse FAQ: What is the Player Strategy Guide?
What is the Player Strategy guide?
Deafverse FAQ: How can I sign up for Deafverse?
How do I sign up for Deafverse?
Deafverse FAQ: What are the accessibility options for Deafverse?
Deafverse is experienced primarily through ASL storytelling. We have English transcripts and audio files as well.
Deafverse FAQ: What is Deafverse?
Deafverse is a free choose-your-own-adventure game that gives players a safe environment to practice self-advocacy skills. Players respond to challenges and conflicts that are part of the deaf experience and allow them to become more confident in facing these situations in real life.
Rebecca’s Experience: What is an Accessible Learning Environment?
Really, my accommodations for classes vary, depending on whether the format is lecture-based or not. I would ask for speech-to-text transcription if my teacher uses a lot of contextual vocabulary. It’s very important.
Shira and Felicia’s Reminder That Each Student is Different
Shira and Felicia’s Reminder That Each Student is Different: I feel it’s hard to say there is a most effective strategy, it’s not “one size fits all.” It is dependent on the individual, and what THEY need and want, and then respect that the individual knows what’s best for themselves.
