This reading list gathers research on family involvement, the ways families and schools partner to support a deaf or hard of hearing child's learning. It includes work on why early access to language matters so much, on the family's role in language development, and on how strong family-school partnerships raise student achievement. Use it to ground family engagement plans in evidence, to guide partnership practices, and to show families and colleagues why involving families as full partners makes a lasting difference for children.
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A planning checklist coordinators use to set up ASL classes for families, covering purpose, scheduling, space, instructors, childcare, budgeting, and outreach.
A leadership checklist administrators use to monitor family partnership across the school: ASL classes, family empowerment, accessible communication, and home-school collaboration.
A guide leaders use to assess family partnership and move it from scattered efforts to one schoolwide system, with concrete next steps for every level of practice.