7 Teaching Strategies to Empower Deaf Students
Deaf children in mainstream schools face challenges to their learning which their hearing peers don’t experience. This article provides seven teaching strategies that will help teachers empower their deaf students to do their best in school and set them up for success at college and in the workplace.
Publication Date: June 2020
Publisher: Deaf Unity
Arizona Department of Education AT Short Term Loan Library
Arizona Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services works in partnership with Northern Arizona University Institute for Human Development Arizona Technology Access Program to make available at no cost, a wide variety of assistive technology devices, equipment, software, and professional development materials to school personnel to improve access to assistive technology.
Publisher: Arizona Department of Education
Children With Hearing Loss: Guidelines for Schools
Some children are born with a hearing loss. Others may develop one due to injury, infection or even loud noises. Children with hearing loss can do well in school, but they often need extra help to learn at their full capacity. Every child is different. This handout can help schools find ways to meet the needs of the child with a hearing loss.
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Classroom Tips for Teaching Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students
This document includes explanations and classroom tips for using good communication techniques, finding the right pace for talking, initiating one thing at a time, allowing one talker at a time, and minimizing visual distractions.
Publisher: Rochester Institute of Technology
Comprehensive Overview of Hearing Impairments
Hearing impairment is defined by IDEA as "an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educational performance." This document explains hearing impairment characteristics and educational implications.
Publisher: National Association of Special Education Teachers
Deaf Students Education Services
This guidance document is intended to furnish State and local education agency personnel with background information and specific steps that will help to ensure that children and youth who are deaf are provided with a free appropriate public education. It also describes procedural safeguards that ensure parents are knowledgeable about their rights and about placement decisions made by public agencies.
Publication Date: September 2024
Publisher: US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights
Educational Service Guidelines for the Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
This document was created after an in-depth review of several states’ educational guidelines. Networking, partnership, and collaboration are essential to building capacity, and the place to begin is with common knowledge and focus. This tool is meant as a guidance document for deaf education. It consists of standards addressing the following areas: Identification and Referral, Assessment of Unique Needs, Instruction and Learning, Support for Instruction and Learning, and Parent, Family, and Community Involvement.
Publisher: The Outreach Center for Deafness and Blindness
Hearing Loss Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with hearing loss and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: March 2021
Publisher: KidsHealth
Optimizing Outcomes for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Educational Service Guidelines
These guidelines are designed to assist special and general education administrators, teachers, specialized instructional support personnel and family members with essential guidelines and principles that will promote this shared goal.
Publication Date: July 2019
Publisher: National Association of State Directors of Special Education
What Educators Need to Know
This list provides educators with an introduction to what they need to know to serve students with cochlear implants.
Publication Date: December 2017
Publisher: U.S. Food and Drug Administration