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faithy295

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What are your feelings on deaf people going to hearing schools? I'm deaf and I just started a new school year at Blue Valley Middle School. It's all hearing, but to me it's not that bad.:deaf::Ohno:
 
They can be great if they have a deaf/hoh program attached.

If there is proper support it is manageable.

I spent a large portion of my school career mainstreamed.
 
Bottesini said:
They can be great if they have a deaf/hoh program attached.

If there is proper support it is manageable.

I spent a large portion of my school career mainstreamed.
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That's the only problem... I can read lips pretty well but my mom's thinking of putting me in the special needs program. My mom heard that one of them is a CODA, so I can have an interpreter. I don't want to be thought of as someone with special needs, but I don't want an interpreter either.
 
That's your choice.

It becomes a balancing act though. Some deaf or HOH kids do pretty well in the mainstream with no "special help", others not so much. But in general it seems that having a program or at least OTHER deaf/HOH kids around might be a great boost to the deaf/HOH kid. I know it might have for me.

I spent my entire school years mainstreamed. The only 'special help' I ever got was..speech therapy (up to about 5th grade). No interpreters, no self contained classes, no other kids (that I knew or knew of anyway). I did start out going to various 'hearing impaired/oral' programs as a tot until I hit age 5 (Kindergarten twice..not real clear on why...). I hated it.. spent most of my time TRYING to lip read and hear. Not an easy task when you are also vision impaired :). You get tired realllll quick lol. Didn't socialize as much because of that too.

It is what you make it though- if your personality is one that's really outgoing, go for it. Make your school years your own, not how others experienced it in the past. You'll know if whatever you are doing is working or not. The trick is getting others to understand that- including your mom.

If I were you, if there is support- try it for a while. It can't hurt.
 
Going to the hearing school is not going to help deaf or hard of hearing being able to understand hearing teachers unless you are excellent lipreader (I doubt that would help you understand what is going on in the classrooms). No lipreader is not that excellent ever. You will only get probably 30% of what you can pick up from lipreading them. That is why you need accommodations to help you get good grades and not have to be so frustrated not understanding what both the hearing teachers and hearing students.

If there were no deaf students with you at high school. You will have some or more difficult to understand hearing students during recess (break time) and lunch hour. Also you need to learn ASL and be able to have ASL interpreters in your school so it would make your life easier.

High school need to have Special Education program or Deaf program (prefer much better than Special Education program). It is important that you have accommodation for you to understand what everyone in your school said.

Mainstream school with ASL interpreters plus captioned or subtitle on teaching video is the way to go.
 
I went to a hearing school from Kindergarten to the day I graduated from HS. Once I started middle school, I had a note taker in the back of the classroom taking notes for me. In case I might have missed certain information in the classroom that I didn't catch.

You do not want to be in special needs classroom, they do the bare minimum of Education. I was in Advanced Classes when I was in school with absolutely no issues learning what I learned. Sure there are days where I struggled, but between my notes and studying hard. It was not that bad.

I had my own issues transiting from Middle School to High School. I had to deal with the fact my peers made fun of me because I can't hear, I can't speak clearly. They would purposely say something in the distance to make me lip read. For example, it might look like someone is saying 'I love you' but in reality they are saying 'I love juice'. I eventually became a loner and distanced myself from people. Of course, things were different in the 80s and 90s when I was in school.
 
RisinDragon said:
I went to a hearing school from Kindergarten to the day I graduated from HS. Once I started middle school, I had a note taker in the back of the classroom taking notes for me. In case I might have missed certain information in the classroom that I didn't catch.

You do not want to be in special needs classroom, they do the bare minimum of Education. I was in Advanced Classes when I was in school with absolutely no issues learning what I learned. Sure there are days where I struggled, but between my notes and studying hard. It was not that bad.

I had my own issues transiting from Middle School to High School. I had to deal with the fact my peers made fun of me because I can't hear, I can't speak clearly. They would purposely say something in the distance to make me lip read. For example, it might look like someone is saying 'I love you' but in reality they are saying 'I love juice'. I eventually became a loner and distanced myself from people. Of course, things were different in the 80s and 90s when I was in school.
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That first part's not a bad idea. But for the second part, I'm not being made fun of. I actually fit in. I will think about the note taker though, it sounds like a good idea.
 
i've only ever been in mainstream classrooms. one-on-one i can read lips&c pretty well but it's very different in a classroom and more so as you move up in grades - teacher moving around, students behind you, group discussions, etc. it's incredibly easy to miss most of what's happening, and i find it exhausting trying to do all of that processing on top of trying to, you know, learn what's being taught. for me an interpreter worked best. a note-taker may work best for you.

i agree with what others here have said - avoid special ed if you can, and at least try using some kind of support.

relying on interpreters can be a social obstacle, i'm not going to deny that, but it's not going to obliterate your chances of making friends or anything. like deafducky said, it's a balancing act - what are your priorities?
 
My priority is mainly just to get the work done and since my teachers know I'm deaf they know to teach facing me most of the time. I am thinking abut using a note taker too.
 
all right. sounds like you're prepared for students asking/answering questions in class as well as for group discussions. i haven't really used a note-taker so i don't know how that works in those situations. hopefully someone else here can describe their experiences or you can discuss that with your teachers, if either option would be helpful to you.

regardless, best of luck.
 
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RisinDragon said:
I went to a hearing school from Kindergarten to the day I graduated from HS. Once I started middle school, I had a note taker in the back of the classroom taking notes for me. In case I might have missed certain information in the classroom that I didn't catch.

You do not want to be in special needs classroom, they do the bare minimum of Education. I was in Advanced Classes when I was in school with absolutely no issues learning what I learned. Sure there are days where I struggled, but between my notes and studying hard. It was not that bad.

I had my own issues transiting from Middle School to High School. I had to deal with the fact my peers made fun of me because I can't hear, I can't speak clearly. They would purposely say something in the distance to make me lip read. For example, it might look like someone is saying 'I love you' but in reality they are saying 'I love juice'. I eventually became a loner and distanced myself from people. Of course, things were different in the 80s and 90s when I was in school.
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I was going suggest a note taker too ,it's hard to read lips while taking notes. I had note takers in college but I did not like the notes they
where taking so I took notes too and use both notes .
 
actaeon said:
all right. sounds like you're prepared for students asking/answering questions in class as well as for group discussions. i haven't really used a note-taker so i don't know how that works in those situations. hopefully someone else here can describe their experiences or you can discuss that with your teachers, if either option would be helpful to you.

regardless, best of luck.
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thanks
 
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Maybe you should check it out. You will have friends/teachers/administrators who you can have a full access in communication in KSD.
 
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