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Disabilities -- Hearing

Subject OLD Classifications
Deafness (14)
Hard Of Hearing (5)
Impairment (4)

Resources

This guide includes tips and insights from podcast hosts on the best ways to achieve accessibility in podcasts. Tips include providing transcripts and turning podcasts into a video format.
This website provides information about the ASLCORE Project. This project develops new ASL signs for advanced discipline-related terminology. These signs are intended to "serve as suggestions for how to sign concepts and vocabulary." The signs are developed by deaf content experts and translators who are fluent in American Sign Language.   The...
This webpage, from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, provides a 2-page tip sheet about communicating with deaf individuals. This resource includes a brief interview and discusses the following questions: do all deaf individuals communicate the same way, how do deaf individuals communicate in their daily lives, how does a setting...
This DeafTEC webpage includes videos intended to provide examples of "bad" lectures for hard of hearing and deaf students. "Viewing these lectures will help you experience what a deaf or hard-of-hearing student experiences in a “bad” lecture." The videos include a network lab and an art lecture. Two additional videos are included that "add[] ...
This article, provided by the Accessible Textbooks for All initiative from UNICEF, covers various requirements to produce effective sign language videos. Recommendations are included for skills and general requirements, and technical recommendations. Technical recommendations cover camera format, sound, clothing, lighting, studio and equipment,...
This guide is focused on creating accessible videos and is provided by Rooted In Rights, a video production organization run through Disability Rights Washington. The guide outlines how to create accessible videos, and provides resources, examples, and instructions on captions, audio description, transcripts, video players, and accessible...
The Spreadthesign website provides sign suggestions from different languages around the world. To find a sign, site visitors can type a word into the search box on the homepage. The search results page will show a video of someone signing the word. Below the video is a list of all the languages that are available for the searched word. The...
This web page, from the National Deaf Center, includes state reports on postsecondary outcomes of deaf individuals. PDF reports are included for each state, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Figures and data are provided on educational attainment and earnings for deaf individuals compared to hearing individuals for each state versus...
Teaching Deaf Students Online, a new self-paced professional development course, can help you adapt your online courses to ensure that they are accessible and inclusive. It is now available in the free online learning library of the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC). In just two hours, gain a basic understanding of accessible...
This guide from deaf digital marketer Meryl Evans covers different automatic captioning tools that can be used in real-time for making video calls accessible on different platforms. Evans provides guidelines for readability, caption placement, and synchronization of automatic captions, as well as tips to overcome other accessibility challenges. The...
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