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Friday, July 15 • 5:00pm - 5:50pm
Deafverse: How a Game Teaches Deaf Teens to Level Up in Life

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**This session will be presented in ASL with a live voice interpreter**

Deafverse is a web-based, full-motion video game that invites players to navigate tough situations that deaf people typically encounter in school, the workplace, and other aspects of "adulting". Inspired by classic choose-your-own-adventure books and text-based computer games—the narrative is experienced in American Sign Language!

Deafverse was developed by an all-deaf team at the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC) with existing evidence-based research.
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avatar for Kent Turner

Kent Turner

Game Designer, National Deaf Center
Kent Turner is a former classroom teacher with over a decade of experience in curriculum design. Gamification, the process of adding game-design elements to school curriculums, is his passion and he wrote his thesis on this approach at University of California, San Diego, where he... Read More →
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William Albright

Senior Software Engineer, National Deaf Center
William Albright believes that the point of life is to live without unnecessary struggle. With a software development background, William uses computers to solve problems at scale but is also eager for human solutions. He found this balance in a National Deaf Center approach to postsecondary... Read More →

Friday July 15, 2022 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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