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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…
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Families
Topics: Deaf Awareness, Mental Health & Well-Being
Deaf youth, like you, have many different hopes, dreams, and goals. Many programs and services are available to help you succeed. One important program is vocational rehabilitation (VR), which helps you plan to reach your educational and career goals….
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Testing Accommodations, Transition
Encourage students to think about getting ready for life after high school, and their goals for continuing their education, getting a job, and living their life. Use the Choose Your Future! Activity Kit to discuss their strengths, interests, and needs….
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Families
Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being, Transition
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of veterans returning home with combat-related hearing loss and tinnitus. Deaf veterans may need accommodations and support to be successful in college and the work environment….
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Research
Useful For: Audiologists
Topics: Deaf Awareness, Policy, Research & Data
Disability services offices can benefit from conducting an internal assessment of policies, procedures, and other practices while managing accommodations for deaf students. The purpose of this guide is to help identify effectiveness, potential gaps, or areas in need of improvement…
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Tools
Institutions frequently face a variety of challenges with providing accessible environments for deaf students. One common challenge is the semester-to-semester changes in the number of registered deaf students and service provider availability….
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Tools
Prior to the beginning of the semester, the disability services office can provide guidance to faculty on how to make classroom environments accessible to deaf students in their courses….
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Tools
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Tools
Student orientations are an opportunity for students to learn about the support services available on campus, including when and how to access them. At the end of orientation, deaf students and the disability services staff should have a shared understanding…
Type: Resources
Resource Type: Practices
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Tools
A guide for strengthening tutoring support for deaf students in college including considerations for access, culture and identity of students, and online distance tutoring….
Type: Resources
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Research & Data
Interventions, programs, and practices are evaluated for their effectiveness….
Type: Resources
Useful For: Employers
Topics: Transition
The National Deaf Center strives to provide the highest-quality assistance by incorporating practices that are “evidence-based”…
Type: Resources
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Research & Data
This step-by-step guide explains how to request and use accommodations on standardized exams to help students meet their goals after high school….
Type: Resources
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals
Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being, Testing Accommodations