Resources: Mental Health & Well-Being

Deaf teenagers with stronger family support are more successful after high school. To succeed, deaf people need to be able to make their own decisions, communicate about their preferences, and advocate for their needs.

This step-by-step guide explains how to request and use accommodations on standardized exams to help students meet their goals after high school.

Mental health professionals and researchers have worked to address the lack of evidence-based, culturally relevant, and accessible approaches to mental health services for deaf individuals.

Late-deafened individuals experience a variety of challenges navigating the postsecondary environment due to a variety of internal and external factors. This document summarizes the research related to postsecondary outcomes for late-deafened individuals.

This research brief summarizes how families play an important role in influencing the educational and occupational outcomes of deaf children.

This brief summarizes the research related to mental health care for deaf individuals.

Deaf individuals experience the same mental health concerns as their hearing peers and, as such, seek out the same services to address these concerns. However, unlike hearing individuals, deaf people do not always find equitable access to mental health services.

This study synthesized the literature on role models for deaf individuals and identified key themes across the research literature.