Lighthouse77
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Oh, I'll support it if it includes ASL but then again, many hearing class mates might not like that (kinda like watching closed captioning on football games)
How old is that child? How much of hearing loss in DB if possible?
Yea, I think its the child that decides in the end which is better for them, as every child is different, like my friends brother didnt get on with it, but the child returning to your school did. If only both special schools and mainstream were amazing enough to be best either way.
I was a mainstream student. I think if you added the numbers, you would find very few here who support mainstream for deaf children.
Or the brother does not want to think himself a deaf. This is very common as some deaf pride themselves that they can do what hearing people can do (and some of them secretly tear themselves down because they feel they aren't good enough)
Does he have a Cochlear Implant?
Why do you call it special school?
simply because my friend said her brother had chosen to leave the special school (because it supposrted his special educational needs) SEN
I ve always thought mainstream school is not that bad if there are more than 25 kids included ASL. I understand that I have not been there before.
How old was your friend's brother when he joined the Deaf school? Or as you stated special school.
What was his degree of hearing loss?
Did he know ASL? Did his family support him by learning ASL?
Or did they make him feel like an outsider?
Distance from home?
What parents wanted and expected from him?
Etc..
What was he expecting when he arrived.
It is confusing... Yeah.
So you will find different answers to what you are asking.
It all lays down to why he prefers the mainstream.
So my factors to why people agree or disagree to schools.
Many threads have posts on each personal experiences.
And I'm sure some will post on theirs on your thread.
school for the deaf. If it does not do sign languages, it would be like oral school for the deaf.
Most school don't have the budget to break up the school for the deaf... that is, if one mainstream school have maybe 2 deafs, they don't have the money to send out interpreters/accommodations/ etc. just for those two deaf in that school, and 2 or 3 deaf in another school,and so on.
So eventually, they will ask these kids to go to certain school unless they can mainstream well without all these accomadations... Either that or go to learning disability class. you see, I was able to mainstream well with LD in English only... doesn't mean I was happy about it. I asked my mother to let me go to a public school with a deaf program and she told me no.
That's a really good point. Dhh formal program at a mainstream school can be REALLY good, especially if the kids are a little too young to think about going off to res school.I ve always thought mainstream school is not that bad if there are more than 25 kids included ASL.
I ve always thought mainstream school is not that bad if there are more than 25 kids included ASL. I understand that I have not been there before.