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Cover for the publication entitled "Model Policy for Inclusive ICTs in Education for Persons with Disabilities". A photo of a page printed in braille is at the top of the cover.

Guidance for Policy Makers on Disability-Inclusive ICT in Education

This manual provides guidance for policy makers on developing policy that will help ensure disability-inclusive ICT in education.

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Teaching Foreign Language to Deaf Students

The author analyzes strategies that teachers use for teaching foreign language to Deaf students in France, focusing on English teachers.

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Free academic literature on disability in education

Free academic literature on disability in education available at Disability and Equity in Education Commons. Includes articles on deafness.

Teacher attitudes toward deaf students in Mississippi, USA

The author researches teacher attitudes toward deaf students in the United States, with a literature review and a teacher survey.

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Deaf Education in Zimbabwe and Teacher Trainees

The authors summarize the history of deaf education in Zimbabwe and study the attitudes of teacher trainees toward sign language.

Two students are sitting on top of their desks so that they can face each other. They are both looking toward the teacher who stands in between them. One child is moving his hands. A blackboard is on the wall behind the teacher.

Help a Deaf Student Understand

How can teachers help a deaf student understand what is happening in the classroom? This article provides general advice.

At the top of the banner it says "Project Salute: Successful Adaptations for Learning to Use Touch Effectively." Below that are five different photos of various adults working with young DeafBlind children and infants.

Touch as a teaching strategy with DeafBlind children

Teachers use touch as a teaching strategy for deafblind children with additional disabilities. Which strategies work best?

Screenshot from a captioned video in which a woman is saying, "This is the first time I had a deaf student and certainly I was a bit anxious about it." An Australian Sign Language interpreter is shown in the corner of the screen.

Self-Paced Tutorial in Teaching Deaf Students

If you are teaching your first deaf student–or your second or third–you will find this self-paced tutorial on teaching deaf students helpful.

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Technology for Teaching Greek Sign Language

Educators in Greece developed technology for teaching Greek Sign Language to deaf students in early primary school.

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Teachers can make simple changes

Deaf students face many challenges in a classroom with hearing peers. But teachers can make simple changes to resolve them.

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Training colleagues at your organization

Disabled people (and Deaf people) can use this manual for training colleagues at your organization on disability human rights

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Learning signs early helps deaf children read

Comparing literacy skills among four groups of children in four countries helps conclude that learning signs early helps deaf children read.

Very young children are seated at tables in a classroom. Each has a snack bowl in front of them.

California supports right to language access

In its position statement, the Department of Education of California supports right to language access for deaf and hard of hearing children.

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How pediatricians can advise parents of deaf babies

When a child is born deaf, decisions can be overwhelming. The authors give guidance on how pediatricians can advise parents of deaf babies.

At the top of the article entitled "Applications of Language Policy and Planning to Deaf Education" is an image of the globe.

Language Policy in Deaf Education

What language should schools use when teaching deaf students? The authors summarize the research about language policy in deaf education.

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Guides on Classroom Interpreting for Deaf Students

Six guides on classroom interpreting for deaf students can guide interpreters, administrators, and others in helping them access language.

The covers for both the English and Spanish versions of the color brochure entitled: "Sign Language Use for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing Babies: The Evidence Supports It." the picture below the title shows three children, seated on the floor next to each other, signing to someone off camera. The same description in Spanish: Las cubiertas para las versiones en inglés y en español del folleto en color titulado "Uso del lenguaje de señas para sordos, personas con problemas de audición y bebés que oyen: la evidencia lo respalda". La imagen debajo del título muestra a tres niños, sentados en el piso uno junto al otro, firmando con alguien fuera de cámara.

All Children Benefit from Sign Language, Deaf or Hearing

According to research, all children benefit from sign language. Babies who are deaf or hard of hearing benefit. And so do hearing babies.

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Health professionals should advise parents to use sign language

Read the evidence: Why health professionals should advise parents to use sign language with their deaf children–even with cochlear implants.

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Finding deaf characters in children’s literature

These resources can help people with finding deaf characters in children’s literature. The books are for readers aged 8 to 18.

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Time to rethink old advice?

In high-income countries, where they can diagnose deafness and give cochlear implants during infancy, is it time to rethink old advice?

Four school children stand in a classroom reciting poetry in Kenya Sign Language. Another child sits at a desk behind them.

Sign Language for Everyone

In Kenya, sign language is no longer just for Deaf children. They are trying sign language for everyone in 470 schools across the country.

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Communication access and an education

First, their parents fought for their communication access and an education. A generation later, a Deaf man and his wife have the same fight.

Two photos are shown. The photo at the left shows children in a Mexican folklore dance, including the Deaf daughter in one of the two families in the article. The photo at right shows one of the Deaf sons in the article with his family.

Family-centered education: Two families, two stories

Family-centered education helped two families in New Mexico, USA, support the education of their Deaf children.

Teachers Explain Teaching Deaf Students

Watch teachers explain teaching deaf students in mainstream schools in the United States and holding them to high standards.

The corner of a large two-floor building shows lettering on two sides that both say "Deaf Community Center". A few cars are parked in front. No people are in sight.

Finding Local Deaf Organizations

Learn advice for finding local Deaf organizations in the country you want by starting at the top with international organizations.

Cover of the publication entitled "Moving Toward Disability Inclusion". Four pictures above the title show images of people with different disabilities working in different kinds of jobs.

Deaf entrepreneurs and other case stories

Projects in different countries helped people with disabilities, including Deaf entrepreneurs, get jobs and escape poverty.

Deaf student interactions with hearing students

A review of 21 studies found that students experience challenges during deaf student interactions with hearing students.

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Inclusion for Deaf and hard of hearing students

Learn strategies to make schools and classrooms more disability inclusive, with inclusion for Deaf and hard of hearing students too.

Opinion on Inclusive Education

Several authors in the 1990s wrote a series of opinion pieces that oppose placing all Deaf students in an “inclusive education” environment.

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After completing secondary education

Find resources that can help plan what a young deaf person can do next after completing secondary education.