This morning, four of my students asked to use the bathroom in the space of 10 minutes. In those same 10 minutes, I was able to conduct three formative assessments and adapt my teaching based on those ...

Advocates for education on sign language are making sure children of all abilities are set up for success in the classroom.Sign language is a vital tool for some students and encouraging others to use ...

Jaxson Finke was born profoundly deaf. He didn't speak until he was 4. His grandparents said his time at Beattie, along with cochlear implants, working with therapists and audiologist have all made it ...

I vividly remember walking into my classroom on my first day of Year 1 and seeing Mrs Sinclair smiling at me. I smiled at her as she signed "Good morning" to me. I signed back to her. There was also ...

In Scot Pott's classroom, there's no talking. Literally. The students in Pott's University of Houston class straggle in, shuffle their desks into a horseshoe and wait for class to begin without ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

On a Saturday morning, a group of adults gather in a circle in an elementary school classroom on the campus of Gallaudet University. Each wears a name tag — and on that name tag is a common sexual ...

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