Early Intervention: The Missing Link

jillio said:
Everything else will fall into place from there.
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I know, it's the waiting that is maddening. Tuesday can't come fast enough. I've started sign with him already and my partner was looking at signs on a site he found so he is on board too.
 
MamaE said:
I know, it's the waiting that is maddening. Tuesday can't come fast enough. I've started sign with him already and my partner was looking at signs on a site he found so he is on board too.
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I know; the waiting is the most frustrating thing of all. Its great that you have already started to sign with him, and even more unusual that your partner is completely on board. Too many times the father (or partner) just doesn't bother with sign, or with anything to accommodate, and leaves it all up to the mother. That is a selfish and arrogant attitude that pisses me off big time! A child needs to communicate with both parents, or a parent and a step parent. It is unacceptable for a father, or anyone in the position of a father, not learn to communicate with the child for whom they are responsible.

I was very fortunate in that my husband and son's father learned ASL, my parents learned ASL (although at their age, they never became truly fluent, but they tried hard), my brother and his sons learned, and now my nephews are teaching their own children. My whole extended family was receptive to the idea. But my family is unusual, too, as it is very child focused.
 
jillio said:
The school board member was coming at it from a financial perspective. She did not want to send to out of district beause then the home school looses the financial assistance from the state and federal government for accommodating a student on an IEP. They want to write the greatest need into the IEP with a minimal amount of accommodation, because that is financially beneficial to the school system. However, it sets the student up for failure. Which a board member would not be overly concerned with, either. Hold them back in enough grades, and you can continue to receive the state and federal assistance for accommodation until the kid turns 21. By that time, they will have another student firmly entrenched in this cycle.
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Oh hell yes....The ONLY reason why mainstreaming is popular, is the fact that dhh kids are cash cows for their districts. They LOVE (and I mean LOVE) getting away with providing minimal accomondations, so they can be "legally" in compliance......trust me....if dhh (or other kids with disabilties) did not come with money attached, they would just be told "send your kid to the state Deaf School.
 
Banjo said:
Great video, shared it on my FB page.
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Ditto. So my hearing relatives can read about it more and more that i ve been posting a lot about deaf culture. :D lots of my hearing (second) cousins can get use to the idea of seeing deaf people with great life when it is involved with ASL. :D
 
I liked that very very much:thumb:
:ty for putting that up, BB
I know people I wanna send link to-
 
It is so true how the doctors make parents feel like their deaf child has some grave disease, because they can not hear. All the negativity around it.
 
I know this is kind of old but I just wanted to kind of update everyone (that cares or wants to read :) I had my sons parent teacher conference with his teachers... Total communication seems to be the teaching method they all use. He uses a lot of cues (visual) and responds with signs. He will be vocal with them but it is rare so with words they don't force him. He is counting to 10 all on his own using sign and speech which they thought came from me but I thought it came from them so apparently between us all he has picked up like a little sponge. The afternoon class which is his class he has with the more skilled interpreters (imo) he is doing WONDERFUL! He is signing in 3-4 words sentences. we went on a field trip to see signing santa the other day and he used full sentences with santa it was amazing!! I really felt that this (meeting) went pretty well. They have scheduled an anual IEP for after the first of the year so then I will get to see what the board members have to say which probably is not going to be pretty but whatever.

Just wanted to update thanks for reading along :)
 
At least he's responding well to the program. Cannot wait til he's old enough to go to deaf summer camp or circumstances change......at least he's not solotiaring.
 
Honestly deafdyke I wish I could have had the entire meeting on video. It was amazing. He is growing up so fast and he is learning so much! I watched him do their circle time with one of the aids and he was so fluent with being only 3(almost4). I really think that this will end up being a good alternative until he is older for VSDB (any advice on them??) We, husband and I, when we are not bickering about him attending a school for the deaf, have agreed that moving no matter the stretch is going to end up the final step. Although if there is any super awesome good things you could tell me about any in North Carolina I would love to read up on them, I would rather go there. I mention you deafdyke, because you seem to always have some good info on tgood schools :)
 
blondon704 said:
Honestly deafdyke I wish I could have had the entire meeting on video. It was amazing. He is growing up so fast and he is learning so much! I watched him do their circle time with one of the aids and he was so fluent with being only 3(almost4). I really think that this will end up being a good alternative until he is older for VSDB (any advice on them??) We, husband and I, when we are not bickering about him attending a school for the deaf, have agreed that moving no matter the stretch is going to end up the final step. Although if there is any super awesome good things you could tell me about any in North Carolina I would love to read up on them, I would rather go there. I mention you deafdyke, because you seem to always have some good info on tgood schools :)
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That is AWESOME! And yes, I do think that when a regional program has the right resources, it can be a good alternative to sending a little kid off to res school, like in the old days. From what I understand there are usually a significent number of academic kids at schools for the deaf....I'm pretty sure VSDB has significent academic kids....and then there are good schools like Florida School for the Deaf and Blind....I don't know anything abt North Carolina School for the Deaf...but I thought it was one of those schools that didn't have a lot of academic kids, and wasn't particualry thought well of. I do know that if special ed is bad in a particlar state, the school for the deaf tends to be really good.
 
BLondon- I'm happy to read that your son is doing well. It doesn't matter whether he responds verbally or through signs-what counts is that he's understanding the concept presented to him.

You guys seem to be doing well, and I'd say keep up the good work including the signing.

I'm a little confused though- you said they use TC but he has an interpreter. Is he in two different classes?
 
Thank you for the words of encouragement csign. He is in two different classes, morning is special needs afternoon is the EI focus class, the class where there were only two students my son and another boy but apparently a new little girl has moved in to the school system and she is causing a stir :-P . The morning class is the only place where he has an interpreter. I had to reread, I was like "did I write he had an interpreter in the evening?" lol but I meant teachers, sorry for the confusion. In the evening is teachers, (is what I meant to say), but they are the ones who are very knowledgable in sign and have taught him very much, as opposed to his assigned interpreter for his morning class.
 
blondon704 said:
Thank you for the words of encouragement csign. He is in two different classes, morning is special needs afternoon is the EI focus class, the class where there were only two students my son and another boy but apparently a new little girl has moved in to the school system and she is causing a stir :-P . The morning class is the only place where he has an interpreter. I had to reread, I was like "did I write he had an interpreter in the evening?" lol but I meant teachers, sorry for the confusion. In the evening is teachers, (is what I meant to say), but they are the ones who are very knowledgable in sign and have taught him very much, as opposed to his assigned interpreter for his morning class.
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Can't remember....is he severe special needs or mild special needs? He sounds like he's mild...meaning more like me (I have hypotonia, learning disablity, and other stuff) But I do know that virtually ALL deaf schools are awesome at educating deaf special needs kids....One idea you might want to pursue is having him evaluted at VSDB and see what they say about educational placement. ...and that's awesome that there's gonna be another little girl in the program! A new friend!
 
blondon704 said:
Thank you for the words of encouragement csign. He is in two different classes, morning is special needs afternoon is the EI focus class, the class where there were only two students my son and another boy but apparently a new little girl has moved in to the school system and she is causing a stir :-P . The morning class is the only place where he has an interpreter. I had to reread, I was like "did I write he had an interpreter in the evening?" lol but I meant teachers, sorry for the confusion. In the evening is teachers, (is what I meant to say), but they are the ones who are very knowledgable in sign and have taught him very much, as opposed to his assigned interpreter for his morning class.
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Does he have an FM system to use during school? Is the afternoon class for DHH students specifically? How old is your little guy?
 
Great video.

Now I learned to see it in a new light.

Thanks for sharing this video.

This video should have been shown to everyone connected with deaf.
 
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