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Student Perspectives
Teacher Perspectives
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Site Accessibility

Provides a brief description of Universal Design Principles and how they apply to this site.

Challenges/Strategies

Presents the core component of the “Class Act” website. Here teaching and learning challenges faced by students and faculty, and the strategies that can be applied to those challenges, are organized into the following framework.

Teaching
Introduction
First Day of Class
Pace
Complexity
Visuals
Attention
Point of Reference
Animated Gestures
Calling on Students
Giving Directions
Testing
Directions for Labs


Communication
Introduction
First Day of Class
Pace
Flow
HH (Hard-of-Hearing) Students
Transitions
Labeling/Referencing
Rules
Vocabulary
  Support Services
Introduction
First Day of Class
Interpreting
Tutoring/Office Hours
Notetaking
Live Captioning
Materials and Media


Environment
Introduction
First Day of Class
Lighting
Competing Sound
Seating
Line of Sight
Safety
Laboratory/Studio
Group Work
Field Work

Discussion Board

Provides for interaction among faculty using the site. Faculty can post questions and can comment on issues raised by others.

Student Perspectives

Presents video clips of students discussing instructional/communication challenges and strategies.

Teacher Perspectives

Presents video clips of teachers role-playing behaviors that present challenges to deaf/hard-of-hearing students, as well as strategies that increase access.

Teaching Tools

Provides a collection of resources to assist faculty with deaf/hard-of-hearing students in their classroom.

 
   
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  Major funding from the Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), and Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education, U.S. Department of Education. Produced at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY