How to improve Schools/programs for the Deaf

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Now, we all know that the reason why schools and programs for the deaf aren't that popular with hearing parents is b/c of their reputation for being really bad. How should we improve things so they are better?
My suggestion: Make them Hoh friendly,(in early grades) so functionally hoh kids with CIs as well as audilogically hoh kids will be attracted to them. I think the theory that ASL is on the endangered list is due to the hypothesis that only profound kids will use ASL.
Have seperate programs for severe special needs (meaning intellectucally disabled) as well as "behind due to not knowing ASL." (like they could have formal intense ASL programs as well as immersian)
Any other ideas?
 
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and mandate that all deaf schools use the public school curriculm or the voluntary state curriculum and follow the scope and sequence.

All teachers need to be certified in Deaf education.
 
shel90 said:
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and mandate that all deaf schools use the public school curriculm or the voluntary state curriculum and follow the scope and sequence.

All teachers need to be certified in Deaf education.
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Yes, I don't want to see Deaf children getting low standard education at any deaf schools. I want to see them getting a highly quality education and the equal education as hearing children do.
 
Oddball said:
Yes, I don't want to see Deaf children getting low standard education at any deaf schools. I want to see them getting a highly quality education and the equal education as hearing children do.
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It is weird because I have interned and visited so many different deaf schools and all of them use the public school curriculm. I am surprised that I keep missing those schools who dumb down the curriculm. Need more $$ to travel, heh?
 
hrmm, my mother won't send me to Texas School for the Deaf for some reason. Idk what the curriculum is like in there back then.
 
sheila022 said:
hrmm, my mother won't send me to Texas School for the Deaf for some reason. Idk what the curriculum is like in there back then.
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TSD is one of the best deaf schools, to my knowledge. Why wouldnt she send you there?
 
shel90 said:
TSD is one of the best deaf schools, to my knowledge. Why wouldnt she send you there?
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*shrugs* I guess she didn't want me to learn ASL because if I did, I wouldn't be able to learn to speak as she had thought during at that time. I think I'll be fine in any school I go to and still can pwn all of my classmates :P ^_^ (BOTTS: BRAGGING ALERT HERE!!! LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL)
 
I rather you brag about that because if you think hearing earlier and better make you smart, then all one have to do is hear better than you :)
 
shel90 said:
It is weird because I have interned and visited so many different deaf schools and all of them use the public school curriculm. I am surprised that I keep missing those schools who dumb down the curriculm. Need more $$ to travel, heh?
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Well, knowing me, I'm sure you can guess which school I'm talking about. lol
 
We have got to start pestering the Clerc Center, RIT, etc. to develop accurate assessments that are normed on deaf kids. I'm SICK of seeing assessments I'm having to use that are not appropriate for deaf kids. Ugh! We have TERA-DHH, but that only goes up to age 12. Etc., etc. It's so frustrating.
 
interned and visited so many different deaf schools and all of them use the public school curriculm. I am surprised that I keep missing those schools who dumb down the curriculm
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I know off the top of my head, West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind,(although they ARE revamping things YAY) Hawaii Center for the Deaf and Blind, (a dumping ground school)
Montana School for the Deaf and Blind.(which is very small and seems to be more for mildly multiply disabled kids) Not sure which others. And I agree with you Shel, there are a lot of amazing Deaf Schools and formal programs out there! It does seem like a lot of people who complain about how sucky the Schools and programs are, are either basing it on VERY outdated stereotypes (like of the way Deaf Schools were in the '70's and early 80's) or b/c the grads don't end up going to Presigious Name Brand University
I was also looking at Missouri School for the Deaf's site.....They offer skilled vocational training.Coats Career & Technology Center Why don't more Deaf Schools do something like that? They have: auto body, Culinary Arts, Family/Consumer, Printing, Woodworking,Horticulture, photography and Life Skills (for the intellectucally disabled students)
 
Because vocational programs cost so much money...with the tighter budgets, the schools often let the vocational classes go. Sad.
 
Really? I had no clue.
B/c back in the old days virtually all deaf schools had vocational ed... I mean heck, even mildly intellectucally disabled kids could benifit from training in the skilled trades. They do still have it, but it seems to be more like intellectucally disabled job training.(like working at Pizza Hut. In other words more like a job, then a career)...which is really sad.
I think too mandating that dhh kids (unless they are unilateral, and even then there could be some wiggle room) be evaluated by the local Dhh program or school might help point kids towards appropreate educational placement. I do think that many hearing parents of dhh kids are unaware that Deaf Schools/programs exist, and they might be a good placement/ helpful for their kid.
 
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why would deaf kids need more vocational programs than hearing kids? A deaf high school should be offering the exact same things as a hearing school.
 
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We had lots vocational program in my county jr. High and high school. You could be a mechanic carpenter hairsylist et.
 
faire_jour said:
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why would deaf kids need more vocational programs than hearing kids? A deaf high school should be offering the exact same things as a hearing school.
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Good question. Now I have to go and think about it. LOL
 
There were several vocational programs at my high school. :dunno:
 
sheila022 said:
hrmm, my mother won't send me to Texas School for the Deaf for some reason. Idk what the curriculum is like in there back then.
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I wish my parents had send me the school for Deaf and HOH in Boston , it was one of the best school around. It sure would had been better than going to public school and staying back 3 years!
 
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