Download, read, and share state reports about postsecondary outcomes of deaf individuals in your state.
-
Topics: Research & Data
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, New Users, Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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.
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Employers, Interpreters, Parents, Speech-to-Text Provider, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Interpreters, Parents, Speech-to-Text Provider, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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.
Useful For: Parents, Students, Teachers -
Topics: Testing, Transition
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: DSP Toolkit, Legal/Policy, Remote ServicesThis guide gives disability service offices tools to increase readiness to serve deaf students for online courses through proactive planning and being prepared to respond to requests from students and faculty members.
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Teachers -
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!
Useful For: Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: DSP Toolkit, Remote ServicesWhen teaching online, instructors have an important role in supporting and ensuring the success of students — especially deaf students. Online courses need to be accessible for deaf students.
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Teachers -
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.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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.
Useful For: Administrators, Audiologists, Disability Services Professionals, Employers, Speech-to-Text Provider, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Deaf 101, Mental Health & Well-Being, Other Access Topics, Transition
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.
Useful For: Parents, Teachers -
Topics: Transition
Although college enrollment for deaf students has increased over the years, college completion has not increased to the same extent.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Transition
Although college enrollment for deaf students has increased over the years, college completion has not increased to the same extent.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Research & Data
This report is an overview of both education and employment experiences of Black deaf people in the United States that also recognizes the multiple identities and experiences of Black deaf communities.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Employers, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Transition
Self-determination is when people make choices and decisions based on personal preferences and motivations. People who have stronger self-determination are able to make their own choices, manage their time, solve problems, advocate for themselves, set goals, and make plans to reach these goals.
Useful For: Administrators, Employers, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Transition
Work-based learning programs have a shared goal of building skills and experiences to help students reach their employment goals. These work-based programs benefit all students, including deaf students.
Useful For: Administrators, Employers, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Transition
This document explains work-based learning where the student actively participates in a work environment and summarizes the literature of why work based learning opportunities are important to all youth.
Useful For: Administrators, Employers, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: DSP Toolkit
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.
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Other Access Topics, Research & Data
A guide for strengthening tutoring support for deaf students in college including considerations for access, culture and identity of students, and online distance tutoring.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Transition
Interventions, programs, and practices are evaluated for their effectiveness.
Useful For: Administrators, Employers, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Research & Data
The National Deaf Center strives to provide the highest-quality assistance by incorporating practices that are "evidence-based" - a term that means they have been shown to be the most effective and should be prioritized for use.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Students, Teachers -
Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being, Testing
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
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.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Students, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Other Access Topics
Summer programs can offer a variety of enrichment activities that encourage students to grow and thrive through meaningful participation.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being, Research & Data
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.
Useful For: Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Legal/Policy, Testing
The 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing significantly elevated the importance of fairness in testing.
Useful For: Administrators, Audiologists, Disability Services Professionals, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals -
Topics: Testing
Assessment accommodations are changes in testing materials or procedures that lessen barriers to access but do not change the test construct, or what the test is intended to measure. Deaf individuals are diverse with varying needs.
Useful For: Administrators, Disability Services Professionals, Parents, Teachers, Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals
Plan Your Future: A Guide to Vocational Rehabilitation For Deaf Youth (