Feature: Great Communication Key to Success
Posted on June 19th, 2011 by Jaimie Schock
Could an approach developed to help deaf and hearing-impaired undergraduates overcome educational disadvantages work for anyone–including mainstream K-12 students who struggle with reading and math? Scott Bellinger, an instructor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, America’s only technical college for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, thinks so.
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Tags: adaptive technologies, Math, Science, Technical Communications
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