ABSTRACT
Resources available outside of the classroom focus on developing skills in students that will enable the deaf students to cope more effectively during their educational experience and throughout the rest of their lives, as well. The chapter focuses on those resources that are necessary or desirable in a post-secondary educational environment, on ways to maximize the positive effect of such resources, and on the need for active involvement of the deaf student in planning. In the best of all possible worlds deaf students would receive a full range of resources that would completely eliminate their inability to hear as a factor in their educational experience in the mainstreamed classroom. In the United States the concept of reasonable accommodation was set forth in Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Interpreting and note taking are the visible resources that are popularly associated with providing services to deaf students within the classroom.
