This co-created Inside Deaf Education tip sheet offers classroom-focused guidance developed during a live event with educators. It highlights ways to anchor instruction in observation, exploration, and real-world connections to support understanding, recall, and engagement. The ideas emphasize sequencing learning intentionally and honoring students’ lived experiences as a foundation for deeper learning.
Because of your selected audience type, you may also enjoy the following related resources.
Explore diverse strategies to build language-rich environments that support deaf and hard of hearing students from early childhood through high school.
Learn the discrepancies in language access for deaf and hard of hearing students compared to their hearing peers, and understand that our community is facing a neurodevelopmental emergency.
Highlighting how accessible language environments support development, Dr. Kaj Kraus and Dr. Naomi Caselli examine the role of sign language in reducing language deprivation risk and supporting stronger language outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing children.