Deaf Pedagogy

An educational framework that centers Deaf students' visual and multimodal resources, resists deficit models of deafness, and embraces translanguaging and visual-relational classroom norms. Deaf pedagogy treats sign language as the medium of instruction, arranges classrooms for mutual sightlines, uses visual signals for turn-taking, and paces lessons to the rhythms of visual attention. It aims to provide an equitable and effective learning environment grounded in Deaf ways of knowing rather than in spoken-language instructional conventions.