Best Practices for Teaching Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

This DeafTEC webpage provides best teaching strategies, based on Universal Design for instructors teaching in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. The goal of these strategies is to improve teaching practice that will provide greater access to learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing students but will benefit all students in the classroom as well. These best practices are divided into the following sections: First Day of Class, Communication, Pace, Complexity, Visuals/Referencing, Environment, Group Projects, Labs/Studios/Field Work, Incidental Learning, Testing, and Top Ten Things D/HH Students Would like Teachers To Do.