Teaching · Special Education

Can the student get every word of the lesson from home.

Join the lesson the way the student does and mark each item. The summary turns the gaps into three short lists: one for the teacher, one for technology, one for the family.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 130 items.

The class check

One record per student and class. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
What is in place for one student in one class, and every gap sorted by who can fix it.
Who it is for
Teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, educational audiologists, special education teachers and technology staff.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved record per student and class; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
so the cell divides...heard, read or both
Drawn for this page. In a remote lesson a student may get the words through hearing technology, captions, an interpreter, or all three.

How to use it

  1. Join the lesson as the student does, on the same platform and device if you can.
  2. Watch the captions against what is said, especially subject words and names.
  3. Ask the student what they missed; they know.
  4. Send each list to the person who can fix it, the same day.
  5. Check each class the student takes; they often differ.

Check a class

What the checklist covers

Why every class

A student can have good access in one class and very little in the next, depending on the teacher’s microphone, how discussion is run and whether recordings are captioned. The check is per class for that reason.

Hybrid is hardest

Classmates in the room are usually too far from any microphone for captions or hearing technology to catch them. Repeating questions into the microphone is the simplest fix.

What it is not

The checklist does not decide which accommodations the student gets; the IEP or Section 504 plan does. Automatic captions are not always accurate enough to be the only access.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.324(a)(2)(iv): considering the communication needs of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing.
  2. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the ADA, 28 CFR 35.160: effective communication.
  3. W3C. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2: success criteria 1.2.2 (captions, prerecorded) and 1.2.4 (captions, live).
  4. National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes. Remote and hybrid learning access resources.

The example student and class are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.