Tools

This tip sheet, provided by DeafTEC at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is from the ACE It! series on acing conversations with potential employers by knowing how to advocate for students, inform the employer how to effectively communicate with employees with disabilities, and educate the employer about workplace accommodations. This tip sheet...

ASL STEM is an American Sign Language dictionary for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics terms developed by the University of Washington. Users can keyword search terms or pick from a category. Users are then linked to video submissions for the term, which are rated on a scale from one to five by the user community. The project aims...

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 4-page resource, from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, explores attitudes towards Deaf individuals, particularly audism, and how it influences the academic and employment outcomes for Deaf individuals. 

This web page provides videos and information on classroom activities and support strategies for students with anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Accommodations and support strategies for directions, test-taking, reading, writing, decision making, and more are highlighted. Common signs of anxiety and OCD, the social and emotional...

This 11-page guide from the Center for Online Education highlights the ways in which students with disabilities can navigate higher education in the United States. The document outlines legal rights for students with disabilities; explains where and how to find assistance on campus; and provides a list of websites, apps, and software resources...

This tip sheet, provided by DeafTEC at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is from the ACE It! series on acing conversations with potential employers by knowing how to advocate for students, inform the employer how to effectively communicate with employees with disabilities, and educate the employer about workplace accommodations. This tip sheet...

This resource, from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, provides two documents and a video that explore research on the effects of increased access to English through computer-mediated communication (CMC) on Deaf individuals' language and literacy skills. The first document is a summary of research goals, methods, findings, and...

This webpage, from Portland Community College, provides information and resources on web accessible formatting.  Users can explore universal design best practices for headings, lists, meaningful links, alternative text, color, tables, captioning, and equations. Tutorials, guidelines, and templates for tools, such as Microsoft Office and Google...

This tip sheet from the National Center for Accessible Media provides guidelines for creating accessible PDFs in both the source document and Adobe Acrobat. It covers topics like creating document structure, exporting, running accessibility checks, and images and alt text.