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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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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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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Vocational rehabilitation (VR) services are designed to support disabled people in their pursuit of employment goals.
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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: 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: DSP Toolkit, TransitionVocational rehabilitation (VR) professionals play an important role in the transition from high school to continued education or employment.
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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: Transition
Although college enrollment for deaf students has increased over the years, college completion has not increased to the same extent.
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Although college enrollment for deaf students has increased over the years, college completion has not increased to the same extent.
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Topics: Research & Data, Testing, Transition
This document provides background information and considerations for placement decisions for deaf students into developmental and college-level coursework.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Topics: DSP Toolkit
Disability services professionals, deaf students, and internship site coordinators can work together in order to implement accommodations and communication strategies during clinicals.
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Topics: DSP Toolkit
Relying on amplification devices or residual hearing alone may not be enough to access communication, especially in difficult listening situations.
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Topics: DSP Toolkit
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.
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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.
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Topics: DSP Toolkit
Student orientations are an opportunity for students to learn about the support services available on campus, including when and how to access them.
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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.
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Topics: Research & Data
This report provides a comprehensive overview of undergraduate enrollment of deaf college students in the United States, serving as a resource for community members, advocates, educators, researchers, and policy makers.
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Topics: Transition
Interventions, programs, and practices are evaluated for their effectiveness.
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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.
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Topics: Mental Health & Well-Being, Testing
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Plan Your Future: A Guide to Vocational Rehabilitation For Deaf Youth (