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Deaf students enrolling in colleges across the country are on the rise and securing access services can be difficult for institutions. Remote interpreting and speech-to-text services are viable options for institutions experiencing: shortages of qualified providers, specific interpreting or captioning…
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Resource Type: Practices
Topics: Remote Services
This book offers guidance before, during, and after the game, including learning objectives as well as a summary of the story and characters. You will also find important vocabulary, activity guides for each chapter, and other supplemental materials…
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Resource Type: Practices
Topics: Deafverse
Deafverse is a game about the deaf experience. Sometimes players need to step back and look at the things happening to them in life. That’s why they should get their own strategy guide! This guide uses examples from Deafverse so…
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Resource Type: Practices
Topics: Deafverse
Educational and transition planning for deaf students requires a flexible, positive approach, now more than ever. NDC has answered many FAQs about how to find needed resources to support transition, what programs are available in different states, and how to…
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Resource Type: Practices
Topics: Transition
Fall 2020 brings many questions for your deaf youth’s education and future. Our research shows family support is so important! While there is a great deal of uncertainty now and in the months ahead, we encourage families to use ways…
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Resource Type: Practices
Topics: Transition
No matter which direction your institution goes for Fall 2020 — online, hybrid, or face-to-face — don’t let your deaf students fall through the cracks. Colleges, universities, and postsecondary training programs have a legal responsibility to provide equal access to…
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Topics: Transition
When the language of a video is primarily spoken in a foreign language, the equivalent accessible version would reflect captions in the same foreign language and should not be translated into English. For example, a deaf student is taking a…
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Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Assistive Listening Systems
NDC’s Creating Offline Captions summarizes the three main ways that institutions are ensuring media on campus is accessible by Finding captioned media or comparable media: Searching for the same video that already captions or if a similar video that is…
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Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Higher Education Administrators
Topics: Assistive Listening Systems
Campus policies and procedures for captioned media is recommended as a proactive measure to support a consistent and streamlined process. Many institutions are moving toward ensuring that all media be captioned, whether or not a deaf individual has made a…
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Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Higher Education Administrators
Topics: Assistive Listening Systems
There is evidence-based research in support of using captioned media without the need to specifically make a request. Captions benefit everyone, and can dramatically improve one’s ability to retain and recall information from videos….
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Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Higher Education Administrators
Topics: Assistive Listening Systems
This step-by-step guide explains how to request and use accommodations on tests to help meet career goals. There are a variety of tests you may need to take to get a job or advance in your career…
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Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Testing Accommodations
Decisions are made every day about deaf people’s lives without involving deaf people. This needs to change. The lived experience and knowledge of deaf community members must guide policy changes, strategic planning, and programs that are designed to reduce barriers…
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Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Families
Topics: Deaf Awareness, Mental Health & Well-Being