Deaf and Hard of Hearing Student Services provides communication access for students and visitors through Accessibility Services. Services are available for classes (both credit and non-credit), meetings with UVU staff, and other UVU events. Please contact us at [email protected] for more information.
DHHSS will be notified once your accommodations have been confirmed with Accessibility Services. We offer ASL interpreters, transcribers, notetaking support, closed captioning, and frequency modulation systems. Service providers will be scheduled for your regularly scheduled classes. If you require a service provider outside of regularly scheduled classes, please submit a Scheduling Request form.
ASL Interpreters are available for all Deaf students registered with Accessibility Services who are fluent in ASL. Students can request this accommodation for classes, field trips, meetings with staff and faculty, group meetings related to class, and all other campus events.
Transcribers, or live captions, are an accommodation offered to all Deaf and Hard of Hearing students who use written English as their primary form of accommodative communication. Students can request a transcriber for classes, field trips, meetings with staff and faculty, group meetings related to class, and all other campus events.
Peer notetakers are not guaranteed by DHHSS, as another student needs to volunteer to serve as a peer notetaker. DHHSS offers two notetaking application options in order to meet this need.
Note Takers Express: Students can request access to Note Takers Express for professional notes to be created from recorded class lectures. Once students submit their recording on the website or app, there is a 24-hour turnaround time before notes are received.
Glean: Another option for professional notetaking support, Glean is a service that creates notes based on class recordings.
Closed captions are provided for all classroom media and videos.
Frequency modulation (FM) systems are used to connect a speaker’s voice to a receiver or directly to a person’s hearing aids. The speaker will wear a microphone that sends a signal to the receiver through its own frequency.
