Moving for a better Deaf School...where can we find one?

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Hello. First post here.

We are searching for a Deaf school for my Deaf, ASL signing, intelligent child with physical disabilities. He is 5 and starting K next year. Because of his disabilities and the support required for my son, I would like to be closer to family. We moved to Colorado with the Army but we are considering moving back to the New Jersey/Philadelphia area when my husband gets out next year.

I would love to hear your experiences/thoughts about these schools specifically, we have looked through your education forums before but a lot of the schools mentioned were not in the area we are looking at. We are looking at a challenging education and being among Deaf friends.

What are your thoughts on:

Archbishop Ryan Academy for the Deaf-Philadelphia
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf-Philadelphia
New Jersey School for the Deaf (MKSD)
(My signing son would likely hate this but we saw there is also Clarke School in Philly for oral.)

We would also love to hear about the schools where we're considering leaving too: (I'm just not really impressed currently with the academics or the way things have been handled at our current Deaf school.)

Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind-Colorado Springs,CO
Rocky Mountain Deaf School-Golden,CO

Thanks for your thoughts and ideas, we're having a hard time researching successful Deaf schools and knew you guys would be a great source of that info.
 
Archbishop Ryan is TINY....Like less then ten kids tiny. Not sure about academics...
I know that New Jersey School for the Deaf (MKSD) like most Deaf schools tends to have good early childhood, and a significent minority of VERY academic kids...
I thought that PSD was kinda.....very inner city and not awesome.
Does PA/NJ have regional programs? Is there any possibilty you could move to Pittsburgh and attend WPSD? That's a GOOD school!
There's a lot of options.....Could you move to a REALLY good Deaf school like Texas School, Indiana School, St. Rita's,FSDB, the California Schools, RMDS?
I'd avoid Clarke.....
Rocky MT Deaf School is very good....Unfortunatly CSDB is a dumping ground school (with some occasional very academic kids)
 
deafdyke said:
Archbishop Ryan is TINY....Like less then ten kids tiny. Not sure about academics...
I know that New Jersey School for the Deaf (MKSD) like most Deaf schools tends to have good early childhood, and a significent minority of VERY academic kids...
I thought that PSD was kinda.....very inner city and not awesome.
Does PA/NJ have regional programs? Is there any possibilty you could move to Pittsburgh and attend WPSD? That's a GOOD school!
There's a lot of options.....Could you move to a REALLY good Deaf school like Texas School, Indiana School, St. Rita's,FSDB, the California Schools, RMDS?
I'd avoid Clarke.....
Rocky MT Deaf School is very good....Unfortunatly CSDB is a dumping ground school (with some occasional very academic kids)
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I thought MSSD and Maryland school for the Deaf are best schools in the U.S.?
 
Also many deaf schools have significent academic kids....ie they may not be the BEST, but in a lot of cases the kids are still somewhat strongly academic
 
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