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Teacher's Toolkit Goals
Teacher's Toolkit Goals
The Teacher Toolkit's goal is to offer additional resources for lesson plans and activities to expand on students learning about Deaf Culture, Deaf Advocacy, Deaf Communities and Deaf history. Teachers are encouraged to add any of the following resources to provide scaffolding for future activities and lesson plans. The resources can also be used to broaden personal perspectives and knowledge of Deaf culture and advocacy.
Documentary about Deaf History
Documentary about Deaf History
This documentary provides students and teachers with information about Deaf history, Deaf culture and their communities. This video would be a good tool to use for a lesson for introductory to the Deaf Culture and make students more aware about Deaf experiences. This can also be used to assign as homework and use for a discussion board to have students write their thoughts of the documentary.
Informational Articles
Informational Articles
This article provides detailed information on the type of schooling options commonly offered to Deaf students. The information was used in the reading excerpts for lesson 1 but it is encouraged to go deeper into the article and find out more about the diverse schools. The information provided in the article can also be used to give students more insight in the schooling options if they proceed to have any questions.
This article shares important information on finding language disparities commonly found in Deaf children between the ages of 0-5 . LEAD-K is a bill fighting for the right of Deaf children having equal access to language. There has been some research of more than 90% of Deaf children are born to hearing parents. (NCID, 2024) When this occurs the parents are given options about how their child will develop language. ASL is usually not recommended as one of the options which has been seen as a probable cause to the language disparities. Therefore, educators have put forth this bill. Read more about it in the article! This information can be helpful to become more aware and involved within the community and can be used as an assignment for analyzing the article once students have developed to C1.
Insights on Deaf Culture and Deaf Experiences
Insights on Deaf Culture and Deaf Experiences
These TED Talks provide an insight to common Deaf experiences. The speakers are Deaf or closely involved in the Deaf community bringing awareness to change common myths, rumors and perspectives seen in Deaf culture. They are a resource to get to know more about the Deaf Culture and can be used for listening activities.
Deaf Accessibility In Healthcare
Deaf Accessibility In Healthcare
These videos provide extensive information on common experiences within the Deaf community when needing healthcare. The videos talk about the lack of resources, accommodations, accessibility issues, and trauma the Deaf community faces in hospitals. Both videos give tips and information on how to properly accommodate Deaf patients as well as, a specific School that created a training video for healthcare workers to help them understand how to help a Deaf patient. These videos can be used in listening lessons with a list of questions stating what happened in the videos and students must identify if it was true or false that the information was stated in the video or not.
Sign Language
Sign Language
This Video shares detailed information about sign language around the world including interesting facts, different kinds of sign language and even shows the differences in each sign. Sign Language is not universal and this video explains why in an engaging way. This could be for used for homework to let students have more insight on Deaf culture.
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