Just this weekend alone

[Oceanbreeze]

I wonder how much burn out happens in auditory verbal or auditory oral programs for the KIDS?!?!?
I mean constant speech therapy cannot be healthy!

It's not. These poor kids are exhausted by the end of the day.

 

[jillio]

Ok ok! Geez!!

You know what I meant.

What would you call SEE, SSE, etc? Manually coded English? What about PSE? What category would PSE fall under?

Yes. The first two are MCE's. PSE is a contact sign language, and is neither English in it's optimal form, nor ASL in it's optimal form. It is the result of contact between users of two different languages, whereby features of both are incorporated to help ease communication.

Yeah, I know what you meant, but we have newbies around here that have difficulty understanding the difference between the two.

 

[jillio]

I wonder how much burn out happens in auditory verbal or auditory oral programs for the KIDS?!?!?
I mean constant speech therapy cannot be healthy!

Most will suffer burn out.

 

[deafdyke]

I know off the top of my head that a lot of Clarke and CID kids learn ASL after they graduated. And yes jillo it's the burn out and the Fourth Grade Glass Ceiling that we're really concerned about. I would say that MOST dhh kids can aquire spoken English, and better then thirty years ago, when all there was , were the body worn hearing aids. Meaning an oral second grade class won't be full of kids who only have a hundred words. But still.....kids have lower verbal IQs and still don't have an on par mastery of spoken AND written English.
I was lurking in the archives of a certain blog by a deaf Auditory Verbal therapist, and she kept yapping that she wasn't anti ASL and that AVT kids LOVE going to AVT!