Download, read, and share state reports about postsecondary outcomes of deaf individuals in your state.
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Topics: Research & Data
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Topics: Testing
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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Topics: Deaf 101, DSP Toolkit, Interpreting
Deaf interpreters (DIs) are deaf individuals who provide interpreting services, translation, translanguaging, and transliteration services in signed languages, including American Sign Language (ASL), other signed languages, and various forms of vi
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Topics: Deaf 101, Mental Health & Well-Being, Research & Data
Due to the increasing number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), professionals who work with deaf students should expand their capacity to support autistic deaf students, especially in transition planning and postsecondar
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Topics: Deaf 101, Research & Data
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) services are designed to support disabled people in their pursuit of employment goals.
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Topics: Deaf 101, Interpreting
Interpreter consistency is a key element in ensuring effective access and effective communication for deaf people who use interpreters.
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Topics: Deaf 101, Mental Health & Well-Being
Decisions are made every day about deaf people’s lives without involving deaf people. This needs to change.
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Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being
Not only do deaf people experience mental health risks more frequently than their hearing counterparts, access to services that can support their mental health and wellness are also often limited. Services and resources such as role models, counseling, and even family support all make major impacts on mental health. Alongside these invaluable resources, these five simple self-care tips can make a difference in mental health and wellness.
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Topics: Testing, Transition
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Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being, 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!
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Topics: Deaf 101, DSP Toolkit, Other Access Topics, Transition
More than 200,000 deaf students attend colleges nationwide. For these deaf students to succeed, college experiences must be accessible. Students also need to feel supported by and engaged with the campus community.
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Topics: Deaf 101, DSP Toolkit, Other Access Topics, Research & Data, Transition
More than 200,000 deaf students attend colleges nationwide. For these deaf students to succeed, college experiences must be accessible. Students also need to feel supported by and engaged with the campus community.
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Topics: Deaf 101, Legal/Policy, Other Access Topics, Research & Data
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.
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Topics: Legal/Policy, Testing, Transition
This document provides an overview of English language proficiency (ELP), how it is measured when it comes to eligibility for English learner (EL) services, and what this may mean for deaf students.
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Topics: Research & Data
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the most current data on educational attainment trends and trajectories for deaf individuals in the United States, serving as a resource for community members, educators, researchers, and policymakers.
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Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being, Testing
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Topics: Deaf 101, Research & DataEmployment is one of many possible outcome measures, but one that is typically used as an indicator for the ability to live independently, attain financial stability, and maintain a quality of life that is aligned with one’s goals.
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Topics: Study Abroad
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Topics: Other Access Topics, Study Abroad
This poster is for institutions that will provide accommodations to affiliated study abroad programs.
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Topics: Transition
Transition is the process all students go through as they move from a high school setting to what lies beyond. Transition programs assist students and their parents as they plan for life after high school in a proactive and coordinated way. An effective transition program provides students with the tools and the confidence to assume responsibility for their educational and employment decisions as they move into adulthood.
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Topics: Other Access TopicsHave you thought about access in various settings at your postsecondary institution?
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Topics: Research & DataThis report is based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) data collected from 2012-2016 and provides both national and state statistics, including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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Topics: Deaf 101, Legal/Policy
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) work together to protect children and adults with disabilities from exclusion, discrimination, and unequal treatment in education, employment, and the community.
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Topics: Research & Data
Strengthening community networks and connections increases social capital, the advantage gained through relationships and social networks. Social capital can help individuals navigate complex school and workplace situations.
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Topics: Legal/Policy, Transition
This two-part video explains the Americans With Disabilities Act and how it applies to postsecondary education for students who are deaf.
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Topics: Research & Data
The National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes conducted a review of the literature on practices that address root causes of challenges to deaf individuals' postsecondary attainment and identified five key impact areas. Evidence-based summaries of each of the five key impact areas are included in the document.
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Topics: Deaf 101, Legal/Policy
Effective communication affords deaf individuals the ability to share and/or receive information in a manner that is successful for them. Effective communication increases the opportunity for full and equal participation in any situation. Effective communication is fluid and allows all parties to receive and respond to information equally.
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Topics: Other Access Topics, Study Abroad
More and more deaf students are pursuing study abroad opportunities which often raises many questions for disability service offices on what steps to take. Study abroad experiences provide opportunities for students to learn essential social and professional skills to be marketable in today’s workforce. Many factors can influence study abroad accommodations and there isn’t a uniform set of guidelines followed by all institutions in regards to coordinating services for deaf students participating in study abroad experiences. Institutions and deaf students can work together using the tools found below to address important questions including emergency planning, service providers, travel logistics, and more.
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Topics: Assistive Technology
Background noise and distance from the instructor may present barriers for some deaf students. When this is the case, assistive listening systems can play a role in reducing or eliminating these barriers.
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Topics: Assistive Technology, Interpreting
With technology always seemingly one step ahead of us, it's easy to confuse the various telecommunication services used to visually connect hearing and deaf individuals who wish to communicate with each other. Three primary telecommunication services are in use today: (a) video relay service (VRS), (b) telecommunications relay service (TRS), and (c) video remote interpreting (VRI). VRS and TRS are free programs regulated by the Federal Communications Commission, and VRI is a fee-based service that satisfies the communication-related mandates of the Americans With Disabilities Act. As their names suggest, VRS and VRI are video-based services, and TRS is text driven.
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Plan Your Future: A Guide to Vocational Rehabilitation For Deaf Youth (