Deaf kids in foster care?

SummerP

SummerP

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Hi all,

I'm working on writing a story, and one of my characters is deaf. In the story she has recently been adopted, but before that she was in foster care. I was wondering how the foster care system is for deaf kids, and particularly I was wondering whether some deaf foster kids go away to schools for the deaf during the school year, or are they usually plunked into mainstream schools.

Does anyone here know and feel like sharing?

:ty: -Summer
 
Thought most foster care kids res schooled it,especially if there aren't ASL fluent foster parents.....
 
I was thinking how lucky that boy Immanuel was, whose adopted sister Hana Alemu was killed by his adoptive parents, and both were abused. He got into a foster home that was with a woman who was both black and fluent in ASL. He needed that combination of environment for a variety of reasons and he was so lucky to get it, especially since he ended up in a good, safe, supportive home and not some shitty place just in it for the money.
 
I was HOH foster kid, but not a happy experience if that's what your looking for
 
I was a foster child and went to a residential school for the Deaf from K-12. Thanks to the state of NJ for providing deaf school info to my foster mom.
 
try the Deaf adoption group on yahoo egroups.
The kids can tell you stories from their parents.
 
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