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Best Deaf Awareness Lessons & Activities

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Resources for educators to ensure deaf people can fully access their learning experience.

• Share My lesson Deaf Awareness Teaching Resources: Collection of lessons to broaden knowledge about Deaf culture.
• Movies and TV shows with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Characters: filterable selection to engage hearing students with Deaf students while still recognizing Deaf student experiences.
• Deaf Awareness: 9 Ways to Communicate: downloadable infographic with simple ways for hearing people to communicate effectively with Deaf people, without knowing sign language.

OTAN’s Accessibility Resources

National Deaf Center NDC Accommodations 101 Resources to ensure deaf people are able to fully access the experiences and activities offered.

11 Awesome Accessibility Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People List of organizations with a focus on Accessibility and specifically deaf and hard of hearing people