Familiar with Gallaudet's VL2 program studies?

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Wondering if any here have participated in or are participating in -- either as subject or researcher -- any of Gallaudet's Visual Language and Learning (VL2) program studies? Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2)

My little one is just beginning a 3-year early ed longitudinal study as part of the program, and the research team is visiting her (and others taking part) in her classroom today to assess her and begin monitoring how both family and school factors influence how deaf kids acquire literacy. She tends to get very shy with strangers -- I sure hope she opens up with them. I don't know specifically which researchers are on campus today, but the correspondence has been coming from Thomas Allen, Diane Clark and Donna Morere. What an amazing project!
 
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Hi there! It's wonderful to hear that you are following and interested in our research. My name is Leah Murphy and I'm here with my assessment team visiting your school and probably have met with your child. It's been such a wonderful visit; everyone is so helpful and the students are amazing!

Thanks for following us!
 
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Hi there! It's wonderful to hear that you are following and interested in our research. My name is Leah Murphy and I'm here with my assessment team visiting your school and probably have met with your child. It's been such a wonderful visit; everyone is so helpful and the students are amazing!

Thanks for following us!
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That's so wonderful -- I love that school so much! You may have met my daughter, I think she had some testing this morning and will be joining you again tomorrow. I dropped by today to sneak the wee one away for lunch and visit the campus with a friend who may be moving up from Philly to enroll her 5YO at TLC next year. Mary Jane said that the kids are having a blast with all of the "games." Brilliant idea for the study -- I'm really excited to see what comes of it (guess I'll have to be a bit patient) -- but it's exactly what I wish I could have gotten my hands on when first making decisions about language and academic environment, so thank you!
 
Sounds very cool! By the way, what does the name TLC stand for?
 
Cool. I checked out the link.

One thing I am so jealous of all of you who live in New England. It's so steeped in history. I'm very familiar with Boston and Framingham for starters. I loved lunching in Fanueil Hall, visiting the downtown cemetery, the old North Church, all of it. Unfortunately it was my ex-husband who was from Boston and since we are long divorced, I don't know when I'll get back to Boston again !! :(

(If you want to hear something funny ... my Dad and I went to the Flume in NH. Being a dummy from Minnesota, I was expecting a ride down a man-made water rollercoaster in a fake, plastic log. We trekked all the way up the Flume, took lots of pictures along the way, and when we reached the top, we started making our way down. I asked Dad, where's the Flume ?? I can't describe adequately how he laughed at his poor daughter.)
 
and visit the campus with a friend who may be moving up from Philly to enroll her 5YO at TLC next year.
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:D That is AWESOME!!!!!! Is she coming from the mainstream or a Deaf School?
 
deafdyke said:
:D That is AWESOME!!!!!! Is she coming from the mainstream or a Deaf School?
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He's currently at PSD, DD, so there's a high bar of expectation. I know, my fingers are crossed -- with so much attrition, so many kids with CIs moving out every year to the CASE, EDCO and mainstream programs ... I want to see many more kids with CIs opt for this type of program.
 
Sad that I lived there for less than year but visited there for two years. I love this area. I do not mind working at LC. But I had to leave there for a reason. Oh well. lol
 
with so much attrition, so many kids with CIs moving out every year to the CASE, EDCO and mainstream programs ... I want to see many more kids with CIs opt for this type of program.
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There are kids going to EDCO? At least they're still getting ASL then!
I do think that a lot of the kids who mainstream or go oral may return to TLC later. It's very common for kids to do well orally,in the mainstream early on and then return to Deaf School. Of course maybe they might go to Clarke then.
 
AlleyCat said:
Cool. I checked out the link.

One thing I am so jealous of all of you who live in New England. It's so steeped in history. I'm very familiar with Boston and Framingham for starters. I loved lunching in Fanueil Hall, visiting the downtown cemetery, the old North Church, all of it. Unfortunately it was my ex-husband who was from Boston and since we are long divorced, I don't know when I'll get back to Boston again !! :(

(If you want to hear something funny ... my Dad and I went to the Flume in NH. Being a dummy from Minnesota, I was expecting a ride down a man-made water rollercoaster in a fake, plastic log. We trekked all the way up the Flume, took lots of pictures along the way, and when we reached the top, we started making our way down. I asked Dad, where's the Flume ?? I can't describe adequately how he laughed at his poor daughter.)
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Not to mean to go off the point.


I did my 3 months teaching internship there in the Spring of 2002. I lived on the campus. It was a wonderful wonderful experience. I will always cherish it for the rest o fmy life.
 
However, no , I am not familiar with this research but it sounds intriguiting!
 
So TLC and Gally are basicly reconizing that in order to save Deaf Ed, they need to develop EI/Early Childhood bi bi to be hoh friendly? I have to say, it's a little too early to tell,, but I do think if they set up a viable system, MANY parents who would have otherwise opted for oral only will opt for bi bi. One reason why some parents opt for oral only is b/c they feel like the state deaf schools don't offer good speech therapies or enough speech therapy. Also, many parents of hoh kids might opt for Deaf Ed.....this is a population that has historically been shipped off to mainstream schools with minimal accomondations (a population the parents of oral CI kids would do well to look at) I mean there are quite a few state schools that have a lot of Hoh kids. You NEVER would have seen that even 20 years ago!
 
deafdyke said:
So TLC and Gally are basicly reconizing that in order to save Deaf Ed, they need to develop EI/Early Childhood bi bi to be hoh friendly? I have to say, it's a little too early to tell,, but I do think if they set up a viable system, MANY parents who would have otherwise opted for oral only will opt for bi bi. One reason why some parents opt for oral only is b/c they feel like the state deaf schools don't offer good speech therapies or enough speech therapy. Also, many parents of hoh kids might opt for Deaf Ed.....this is a population that has historically been shipped off to mainstream schools with minimal accomondations (a population the parents of oral CI kids would do well to look at) I mean there are quite a few state schools that have a lot of Hoh kids. You NEVER would have seen that even 20 years ago!
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I think they are assessing all kinds of educational and home language environments -- I'm pretty certain they are studying kids in Li's class or elsewhere who have no aids and use no spoken language, as well as the kids in TC, oral, SEE, mainstream programs.

I asked Li if the visitors were deaf or hearing, and she said they were deaf, that they didn't have CIs and they spoke English instead of signing. But the she also told me there were a hundred of them (?) , and she was in a room doing computer games with 2 girls and a boy, and the girls were really nice but the boy kept yelling and interrupting to say he was hungry and wanted lunch, which wasn't very nice. So ... I'm not so sure if my not-so-reliable reporter was referring to the adult visitors from Gally or perhaps visiting students from TLC's TC-oriented campus. I sort of doubt the Gally researchers were yelling for lunch :)
 
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