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Hi! :wave:
My name is Kristin. I am hoh and currently enrolled in a deaf culture class. I am working towards my sign language cert and translating cert. My homework assignment is to ask a deaf person their thoughts on how English should be taught for deaf students, And do you think it should be the primary deaf educational focus? Any thoughts?
Thanks! :P
 
Absolutely it should, and phonics should be the focus of any successful deaf English instruction.

<trying to avoid biting the tongue in my cheek>
 
So obviously you're not for the teaching of verbal English...which I get. I can only imagine what it would be like trying to learn a verbal language when you can't hear. What do you think should be taught as it pertains to English and how should it be gone about?
 
Kmkrueger81 said:
So obviously you're not for the teaching of verbal English...which I get. I can only imagine what it would be like trying to learn a verbal language when you can't hear. What do you think should be taught as it pertains to English and how should it be gone about?
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Not necessarily. Deaf people learn by watching. Lipreading is one skill that takes years of practice, visual language such as ASL makes it much more clear to us. Spoken speech can be learned, but is the hardest of all. There are no black & white answers, all grey areas.
 
So do you think that it should be taught in the easiest to hardest? ASL as a child, then working on the lip reading, and finally onto the spoken speech? Should spoken speech be less of a requirement and more of a personal choice?
 
There 2 people who are 20 years are good at getting maximum power from turbo engine of their cars. One of them got their interest just a year ago. The other person got interested when their Dad taught them the power of turbo engine at age of 3. So obviously that age 3 would have more expose to the power of turbo engine.

Does that mean the person who felt power at 3 years old is a better driver than the person who just started last year? Think.

Yeah, it is better to start early, but it does not always mean you are smarter becauase you started earlier.
 
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Kmkrueger81 said:
So do you think that it should be taught in the easiest to hardest? ASL as a child, then working on the lip reading, and finally onto the spoken speech? Should spoken speech be less of a requirement and more of a personal choice?
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There's already a lot of documentation for teaching hoh and deaf children English (check Gally).

The best way to learn English is certainly in a bi-bi environment. As hoh/deaf we are visual learners, starting with letter recognition, then attaching small words to objects etc it typical "prereading". Depending on the residual hearing, different techniques are used to connect written words with sounds/speechreading etc.

The exact method depends on a number of factors - all of this is fairly well documented already.

Why are you interested?
 
Hi Anij,
It was a question for my homework in my deaf culture class. We are supposed to get the opinion of a pearson who is deaf. :)
 
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