Internship in Deaf/ HoH school in the States

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Hello there:)

My name is Laura and I'm nearly finished with my Bachelor in "Special Education" ( specialising in Deaf / HoH education). I'm also HoH which kinda encouraged me to become a teacher for children with hearing difficulties. I plan to study a Semester at the California State University Northridge and after that I want to compete a internship in a school for one or two months. I already competed two internship in schools and I gained some experiences in teaching. I just started to learn sign language (third course at the moment) So I think it would be great when the school use besides sign language also the spoken language to communicate.
Does someone of you know a good school where I maybe could compete a internship? I would be really grateful for your help :)
 
If I understand you right-- you'd like to intern at a school where ASL is in addition to their communication (oral) or is straight oral. The only one that I can think of off hand that does offer internships is Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. I know of at least two people (who graduated from Gallaudet as undergrads) who interned there as part of their Master's program.
 
DeafDucky said:
If I understand you right-- you'd like to intern at a school where ASL is in addition to their communication (oral) or is straight oral. The only one that I can think of off hand that does offer internships is Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. I know of at least two people (who graduated from Gallaudet as undergrads) who interned there as part of their Master's program.
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DeafDucky, I thought I heard Clarke shut down a couple years ago.....
 
Lauralein91 said:
Hello there:)

My name is Laura and I'm nearly finished with my Bachelor in "Special Education" ( specialising in Deaf / HoH education). I'm also HoH which kinda encouraged me to become a teacher for children with hearing difficulties. I plan to study a Semester at the California State University Northridge and after that I want to compete a internship in a school for one or two months. I already competed two internship in schools and I gained some experiences in teaching. I just started to learn sign language (third course at the moment) So I think it would be great when the school use besides sign language also the spoken language to communicate.
Does someone of you know a good school where I maybe could compete a internship? I would be really grateful for your help :)
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I hate Special Education because it is all oral-only method and maybe ASL if there is ASL interpreters so it would have been easier to understand what hearing teachers and hearing students were saying in the classrooms. If this can be allowed in mainstream schools. Mostly they refused to hire ASL interpreters if they are worry about money. Big deal! :roll:

Lipreading is not easy when you try to understand what they said. That is why we need Deaf education which mean accommodations for ASL, close captioned or subtitled video on T.V., notetakers and others.

If you want to teach kids with oral-only method instead of ASL. Then I would not like for the kids to be suffered if they have to be forced to speak and try to lipread hearing people. Are they going to be forced to listen? I hope not. :(
 
Lauralein91 said:
Hello there:)

My name is Laura and I'm nearly finished with my Bachelor in "Special Education" ( specialising in Deaf / HoH education). I'm also HoH which kinda encouraged me to become a teacher for children with hearing difficulties. I plan to study a Semester at the California State University Northridge and after that I want to compete a internship in a school for one or two months. I already competed two internship in schools and I gained some experiences in teaching. I just started to learn sign language (third course at the moment) So I think it would be great when the school use besides sign language also the spoken language to communicate.
Does someone of you know a good school where I maybe could compete a internship? I would be really grateful for your help :)
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Are you located in USA or other country? When my wife and I were teaching at residential school, we had a Deaf Japanese woman live with us for a month, she was on a year long exchange from Japan.
 
Tousi said:
I think your'e right that its still in operation.....
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It is, but it is VERY small, and they shut down the campus. It's mostly outreach, and preschool/kindergarten, with a ghost of an actual school age program..... It's now basicly a self contained program. Not really a school any more.
 
DeafDucky said:
I do feel like some other school closed though.. or on the verge of closing.. I know several state deaf schools (method is ASL) have closed or are close to it... but I feel like there's a few others (Oral or mixed method) that may have closed over the years...the wiki article shows some--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_for_the_deaf#United_States

Not sure that's a complete list though.
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Austine just closed.......St Joseph's (oral) is now outreach. There ARE schools that are thriving and have families that have moved there specificly for the school.
 
Lauralein91 said:
Hello there:)

My name is Laura and I'm nearly finished with my Bachelor in "Special Education" ( specialising in Deaf / HoH education). I'm also HoH which kinda encouraged me to become a teacher for children with hearing difficulties. I plan to study a Semester at the California State University Northridge and after that I want to compete a internship in a school for one or two months. I already competed two internship in schools and I gained some experiences in teaching. I just started to learn sign language (third course at the moment) So I think it would be great when the school use besides sign language also the spoken language to communicate.
Does someone of you know a good school where I maybe could compete a internship? I would be really grateful for your help :)
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Like a bilingal-bimodal one? Most schools for the Deaf (even those that use sign) also use speech as a supportive skill that is very useful for dhh kids. But it tends to be more as a supportive enrichment, rather then as a class taught in speech/hearing. Which is how it should be. Dhh kids should concentrate on learning. They get plenty of exposure to speech and hearing in the outside world, and as long as they get good quality speech therapy, they will keep and maintain their speech skills. Speech skills need to be the cherry on the top of the communication/learning sundae. I think there are state Deaf Schools with Auditory Access programs as well.... Also Kansas Schoo for the Deaf is Bilingal-Bimodal.
 
Thank you for your replys :) I just looked up Clarkes Homepage and it looks nice. Did they shut the campus down or not? I'm a little confused :D Maybe I try my luck and writes them a email tomorrow.
I think it depends on the individul child and the hearing wheter you use the oral or sign language method. I don't know how is it in the States but in Germany special education changed. You can study deaf/ HoH education in five universities and in all of them the students have to learn DGS ( German Sign Language) I would never force a deaf child to speak. We watched a Video of a deaf child whose parents sent him to Switzerland in a " Sprachheilschule"( special language instituation )that he learn to speak perfectly. it was horrible!
I competet two internship in two different schools. The Hartwig Clausen School in Hannover only uses the oral method and all children are hard of hearing. There are never more than six or seven pupils in a class and the teacher uses a Fm gadget. In Hamburg the" elbschule "is completley different. They have deaf and HoH children. In the deaf classes they also have deaf teachers who teach them in DGS. In the HoH classes they use spoken language and LBG ( oral supported signing). This means when the teacher is saying something she is also using signs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manually_coded_language

@ Soutthpath I'm from Hamburg in Germany. I want to study a Semester abroad in the States and after that do an internship. I think especially as a future teacher it is important to do internships and expierence a different schoolsystem. I'm probably studying at the California State University Northridge or University of Kansas. Do some of you know the universities or went there? or can someone of you recommend another University.
 
deafdyke said:
Austine just closed.......St Joseph's (oral) is now outreach. There ARE schools that are thriving and have families that have moved there specificly for the school.
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Are many Deaf schools closing? Why that? Do they want to integrate Deaf/HoH in mainstream schools? ( I hope not as I went to a mainstream school)
 
Lauralein91 said:
Are many Deaf schools closing? Why that? Do they want to integrate Deaf/HoH in mainstream schools? ( I hope not as I went to a mainstream school)
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Right now no not many are closing... but many have small student populations as there are a lot more DHH programs within the local school districts or the school will provide interpreters (though how common that is I don't know- I have a friend who used to do education interpreting). I just visited a friend up where the ENCSD is (Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf)- she said that the classes are very small and sometimes (mostly with the 'special needs' or behavior problem kids) two grades are put together; the residential is not as big most are day students now. Pretty cool- I got to see more of the campus than I did the last time I was there in 2006 for a job interview (I didn't get it- long story).
 
deafdyke said:
Austine just closed.......St Joseph's (oral) is now outreach. There ARE schools that are thriving and have families that have moved there specificly for the school.
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St Joseph's in Missouri (?) is the one I was thinking of that I read about a while ago. I didn't realize Clarke had closed their campus-- I wonder if that's why there are more 'campuses' or outreach programs in other cities- there's one in/near Philadelphia but I don't remember ever hearing about it...I'm sure my parents would have put me there. Or maybe they did and I blocked it out- I know I was in quite a few "hearing impaired programs" before the age of 5 but I only remember 1- half day in regular kindergarten (I don't remember that) and half day in the self contained class for the deaf kids (that I remember there were about 5 of us...and a pet lamb... yes a pet lamb :) )
 
DeafDucky said:
St Joseph's in Missouri (?) is the one I was thinking of that I read about a while ago. I didn't realize Clarke had closed their campus-- I wonder if that's why there are more 'campuses' or outreach programs in other cities- there's one in/near Philadelphia but I don't remember ever hearing about it...I'm sure my parents would have put me there. Or maybe they did and I blocked it out- I know I was in quite a few "hearing impaired programs" before the age of 5 but I only remember 1- half day in regular kindergarten (I don't remember that) and half day in the self contained class for the deaf kids (that I remember there were about 5 of us...and a pet lamb... yes a pet lamb :) )
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Yup. St Joseph's main campus is DEAD. They now just do teletherapy and I think preschool and other outreach. The Indy campus is a preschool to third grade program.
Clarke actually greatly downsized the campus..... They still have the preschool and maybe the kindergarten and audilogical services in the old AG Bell Hall dorm. But they sold ALL the rest of the campus. ... Those satilite preschools existed before Clarke downsized so much. I think that Clarke for some reason wasn't getting as many school age refferals like back in the old days. Used to be incredibily common for school age kids to transfer in from the mainstream.
 
DeafDucky said:
Right now no not many are closing... but many have small student populations as there are a lot more DHH programs within the local school districts or the school will provide interpreters (though how common that is I don't know- I have a friend who used to do education interpreting). I just visited a friend up where the ENCSD is (Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf)- she said that the classes are very small and sometimes (mostly with the 'special needs' or behavior problem kids) two grades are put together; the residential is not as big most are day students now. Pretty cool- I got to see more of the campus than I did the last time I was there in 2006 for a job interview (I didn't get it- long story).
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Yeah.... Unfortunatly in most states the Deaf school is the last resort placement..... Most kids are mainstreamed to the max with minimal accomondations :(
 
BTW that's good that most kids at ENCSD are day students......do most families move there for the school?
 
deafdyke said:
BTW that's good that most kids at ENCSD are day students......do most families move there for the school?
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No idea- I think most are already local as there's still the deaf school in Morganton. The Central school closed long ago and I think most went to ENCSD. The Morganton school I think is even smaller than ENCSD so i don't know why they just don't consolidate into one Deaf school and either put the campus in Wilson or Morganton.

Wouldn't surprise me if some do move closer as Raleigh-Durham and the Research Triangle are close by.
 
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