{"id":474298,"date":"2026-10-23T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:50:08","slug":"college-of-education-national-deaf-center-awarded-24-million-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474298\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Education National Deaf Center awarded $24 million \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple federal agencies awarded the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes more than $24 million in grants, the College of Education announced in an <a href=\"https:\/\/education.utexas.edu\/news\/2026\/10\/07\/national-deaf-center-awarded-24-million-in-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oct. 7<\/a> news release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationaldeafcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The National Deaf Center<\/a> is a national technical assistance and dissemination center housed within UT\u2019s College of Education. The recent grants include funding from the United States Department of Education\u2019s Office of Special Education Programs and the department\u2019s Rehabilitation Services Administration, as well as the National Institute on Disability and Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past 10 years, we\u2019ve worked to improve the systems that shape deaf people\u2019s opportunities to pursue education, training, and careers,\u201d director Carrie Lou Bloom said.<\/p>\n<p>The center went through a competitive process to secure the grants, supported by the College of Education\u2019s research administration team, which helped the center request grant funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReceiving three awards in the same funding cycle is a significant accomplishment for our team,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cIt reflects years of work building the expertise, partnerships and infrastructure needed to take on these initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>College of Education Dean Daniel Hamlin said the grants will be a direct benefit to the campus and local deaf community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be able to house the services and the expertise that the National Deaf Center has within the college here is really quite incredible,\u201d Hamlin said.<\/p>\n<p>The grants are broken up into three different awards and will continue through 2031. The largest award will go toward the center\u2019s core work, which includes providing resources, individualized support, and partnerships with institutions to improve education and career pathways for the deaf community.<\/p>\n<p>The second award supports a national interpreter training initiative, Beyond Access.<\/p>\n<p>The third award supports Deafverse Career Connections, building on the existing Deafverse game, a choose-your-own-adventure game for deaf teenagers to learn important life skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll three awards support the same mission, but in different ways,\u201d Bloom said.<\/p>\n<p>Bloom said the funding for the center\u2019s core mission will amount to $20 million and the funding for Beyond Access will amount to $2.25 million, both over a five-year period, while the funding for Deafverse Career Connections will amount to $2.1 million over three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat matters most to me is that we\u2019re not simply continuing what we\u2019ve already been doing,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cWe\u2019re using what we\u2019ve learned to become more intentional about changing the systems that shape opportunities for deaf people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple federal agencies awarded the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes more than $24 million in grants, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-474298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}