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Inclusive teaching at your fingertips

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Creating a more inclusive classroom environment starts with educating instructors about the needs of their students. Once those needs are understood, work to address them may not only benefit the small group of students for whom the intervention was intended, but the wider class too.

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Fig. 1: Sign language in the classroom.

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