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• A Teacher's Guide to Hearing Disabilities and Learning
  Students with hearing impairments often experience educational gaps because their disability is invisible and includes communication difficulties. Some pretend to understand concepts without fully learning them. Use this guide to teach students with hearing impairments and improve learning outcomes.
• How to Teach Hearing Impaired Students: Strategies for Success
  If you need information about how to teach hearing impaired students, you've come to the right place. Providing classroom adaptations and implementing communication strategies will ensure success for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• Discussing Illnesses and Injuries: Medical Terms and Vocabulary in American Sign Language
  The following article describes some helpful ASL vocabulary for use by signers while discussing illness and injuries in a medical setting and includes a link to an accompanying downloadable vocabulary study sheet. The descriptions are also helpful for medical personnel who need to understand ASL.
• Sign Language Alphabet, Syntax, Grammar, and Fingerspelling
  Sign language, or more correctly sign languages, follow their own vocabulary, syntax, and grammar. Learn the fingerspelled alphabet for American Sign Language and British Sign Language as well as some other basic signs and linguistic information in the following article.
• Educational Sign Language Games to Play on the Web
  Looking for a way for your child or student to learn some American Sign Language (ASL) signs online? Here are a few websites that have some fun, educational ASL games to play during free time, center time or anytime.
• How to Teach Students With Hearing Impairments When Mainstreaming
  Students with hearing impairments are often mainstreamed into regular classrooms. What types of easy accommodations can you do in your classroom to help students succeed and continue to work on grade level? Parents and special education teachers can help regular classroom teachers with support.
• Makaton Signs - Playing Numbers Games
  There are lots of fun ways of teaching numbers and counting with Makaton. This article shows you some fun numbers games to use in special education teaching to build Makaton vocabulary skills.
• Using Makaton Signs - The Getting Dressed Game
  This is a fun game for teaching skills related to getting dressed. Makaton signs are used to support the dressing game, as children learn the Makaton vocabulary for various clothing and dressing words. All you need is a big bag of funny clothes!
• Using Makaton Signs - Weather Words Activity
  Makaton is a great special education tool for teaching life skills. It aids communication and provides a visual prompt for a verbal / auditory signal. Non-hearing impaired students can also benefit from Makaton, and this fun weather signs activity shows you how.