This issue of Odyssey takes a look at how schools, professionals, and families are working together to ensure deaf and hard of hearing students across the United States are being provided with equitable access to education, making certain they have the resources and services they need to fully participate and succeed in both school and the community—as young children, as students, and, later, as adults.

Fourteen articles, written by a total of 35 professional and parent authors, address the following topics:

• Striving for equity in the classroom through professional development
• How early exposure to American Sign Language (ASL), including utilizing the Guided Viewing Framework, can impact literacy development in deaf and hard of hearing children
• Role of captioned media in literacy development
• Importance of Deaf Role Models for d/Deaf children and their families
• Strategies to support students with language deprivation
• How teachers can utilize a newly developed ASL Literature Wheel to categorize literary works in order to effectively offer them in the classroom
• How the Equity in Deaf Education Team and supporters worked together to restructure deaf education in the Los Angeles Unified School District in order to make it more accessible and equitable
• 10 hard-won lessons about being deaf and how it can be a strength 
• How speech-language pathologists can work to ensure their language interventions are effective and equitable
• Utilizing visual tools with deaf learners
• Importance of family and connections in language access
• Speech to text and text to speech—listening devices as tools for supporting students
• Low-cost and no-cost resources for families to improve early access to sign language
• Restructuring deaf education systems to attain true equity for all

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