Educational support for d/hh students in postsecondary education A CoP approach

Introduction

The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has accumulated some experience in providing support to d/hh students at various educational levels. We believe a Community of Practice (CoP) among local institutions could be set up to tackle the challenges we share despite teaching in a setting that encompasses unique variables. The CoP “Educational Support for d/hh Students in Postsecondary Education” will therefore be conducted from September 2024 to July 2026. We believe 2 years should allow us to examine the nature of the types of accessibility measures we can offer to d/hh students to support their education. Our objectives are:

  • To build a Community of Practice to support deaf and hard-of-hearing (d/hh) students pursuing postsecondary education
  • To explore possible types of support that suit d/hh students’ diverse backgrounds and learning needs
  • To raise awareness about ways to remove barriers to information accessibility in postsecondary education as experienced by d/hh students

Milestones

DateEventResource
24 October 20241st Forum: Where are we now?Playback
PowerPoints
25 March 20252nd Forum: You don’t know what you don’t know
– Professor Thomastine Sarchet-Maher
(Assistant Dean
Director of Center for International Educational Outreach, NTID, RIT)		Playback
PowerPoints
Notetaking Workshop
30 June 20253rd Forum: Assistive Technology
– Ms. Judy Lo
(ITSC, Head of Education Technology, CUHK)		Playback
Zoom Playback (Auto Captioning by Zoom)
PowerPoints
9 Dec 2025Workshop Series: Demonstration Workshops of Assistive Technology
Workshop 1: Zoom for instructors and student support staff
– Ms Jennifer Sin
(Customer Success Manager, Zoom HK)
Additional Information: How to use Zoom AI Summary
• Video Guide
• Official Guide KB		Playback (Auto Captioning by Zoom)
PowerPoints
27 Feb 2026Workshop Series: Demonstration Workshops of Assistive Technology
Workshop 2: AI Note-taking Tools for Accessible Learning Support
– Ms. Judy Lo
(ITSC, Head of Education Technology, CUHK)		Playback (Auto Captioning by Zoom)
PowerPoints
22 May 2026Workshop Series:
– Ms. Kloris Lau
(Counselling Psychologist)
9 July 2026Workshop Series: Sign language interpreting in higher education: International and local perspectives
– Dr. Chan Yi Hin
(Hong Kong Sign Language Interpreter)		Playback (Auto Captioning by Zoom)
PowerPoints

Poster