Diversity among deaf students at third-level colleges in English-speaking countries means they speak and/or sign, read lips and/or use hearing-aids and/or cochlear implants. Equally diverse teaching-supports are needed.
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), in Rochester, New York is expecting verbal deaf student numbers to grow as more receive cochlear implants at about one year of age, and get to develop their verbal skills.
Read: NTID programs help deaf students thrive
About 71% of new students at NTID arrive from mainstream education and use visual, web-based or individual tuition in their studies. Interpreters and captioning devices are available for these students at other RIT colleges.
Further Reading
- Technology Has Revolutionised Deaf Education
- What Tertiary Supports Do Deaf Students Need?
- Insights To The Deaf Education Debate In The US
- Deaf Student Uses Captions In Operating Theatre
- Gallaudet Introduces Captioning Alongside ASL
- Deaf Education: A New Philosophy (RIT, Nov 2010)
