Please help me!

[kamaya]

I need your help. I am training to become an intervention specialist and I am reading a chapter this week on "Deafness and Hearing Loss." I am trying to understand some basic ideas about Deaf culture.
What do I need to know as a special educator for working with children in the deaf community?
What type of good and/or bad experiences have you had in your education process?
What modifications to your instruction has been the most successful?
What are some main concerns for people in the Deaf community?

I thank you for any and all of your input, I hope by gaining this information, I can help more children.

 

[Hwy99]

What do I need to know as a special educator for working with children in the deaf community?

Well of course, the ASL Always use the visual ways to get their attention, such like flashing the ceiling lights, or waving at them, or something like that. That's all I can say, but I am sure there's more.

What type of good and/or bad experiences have you had in your education process?

Well I am not sure, but the only thing I have bad experience is my speech therpaist, she teach me very little of speech, probably never, and only ask me how I am doing, and she was trying to take into my business with other classes that she wasn't involved. Alot of other parents includes my parents complained about that therpaist, and she was forced to move to different position.

What modifications to your instruction has been the most successful?

That goes for people who are interest the same as your career, I can't answer this one. Sorry

What are some main concerns for people in the Deaf community?

Closed Caption if you are going to have the television coming up, or having interpreter. The deaf community always demands the closed caption or interpreter. Also most of the times, especially the deaf children, experienced the discrimination and bullying because of their deafness by the hearing children, they usually need help from the staffs to solve the problem. That's all I know so far. Hope this helps and hope other will come by and help

 

[pek1]

I need your help. I am training to become an intervention specialist and I am reading a chapter this week on "Deafness and Hearing Loss." I am trying to understand some basic ideas about Deaf culture.
What do I need to know as a special educator for working with children in the deaf community?
What type of good and/or bad experiences have you had in your education process?
What modifications to your instruction has been the most successful?
What are some main concerns for people in the Deaf community?

I thank you for any and all of your input, I hope by gaining this information, I can help more children.

kamaya!!

First of all, you need to know and remember that not all deaf or hoh (hard-of-hearing) people are part of Deaf Culture. Some deaf people are part of the Deaf Culture, which means they have attended deaf residential schools (located in almost, in not all, states in the USA), some hoh have attended them, too.

Second, not all of us know each other as the Deaf's do, as they stick together like flies on a dead cow (no pun intended)

Third, I used to have information from a special education curriculum that includes deaf and hoh children, so if you search the internet, you are going to get a whole slew of information. Be choosy and stay focused on what you are looking for so you don't get side-tracked.

Hope that helps. If you need more assistance, please feel free to pm me and I'll help you out more.

 

[jillio]

PLEASE do not use the internet as your source! There is too much out there that is completely innacurate. If you want information, go to a edu website, and consult education for deaf/hh children. The issues are completely different than for other disabilites, and certainly cannot be covered in one chapter of a text book.

 

[kamaya]

I am sorry, I was suppose to get opinions for this assignment.

 

[pek1]

I am sorry, I was suppose to get opinions for this assignment.

My bad. I read your post again and I didn't answer your questions, not to mention read through them. Let me do it again.

 

[shel90]

I need your help. I am training to become an intervention specialist and I am reading a chapter this week on "Deafness and Hearing Loss." I am trying to understand some basic ideas about Deaf culture.
What do I need to know as a special educator for working with children in the deaf community?
What type of good and/or bad experiences have you had in your education process?
What modifications to your instruction has been the most successful?
What are some main concerns for people in the Deaf community?

I thank you for any and all of your input, I hope by gaining this information, I can help more children.

I will have to get back to u on that one. I am a deaf person who grew up mainstreamed with the oral only approach, have a deaf brother who grew up going to the deaf school, worked as a teacher's aide in special ed programs for hearing children with special needs and for deaf programs in mainstreamed schools, and now I am a teacher at a deaf school. I have a lot of personal and professional experiences when it comes to the education for the deaf. Right now, I am so tired from an 8 hour workshop training us behavior management and crisis intervention techniques. Also, I am drinking wine so I would rather be clear minded when I answer your questions.

 

[shel90]

PLEASE do not use the internet as your source! There is too much out there that is completely innacurate. If you want information, go to a edu website, and consult education for deaf/hh children. The issues are completely different than for other disabilites, and certainly cannot be covered in one chapter of a text book.

Agreed!!! Too many biased opinions here..even mine are biased but just take them and keep them in mind as long as u dont take all of our words to apply to your methods. I suggest go to deaf/hoh programs in a variety of settings so u can get the idea.

 

[pek1]

I need your help.

I am training to become an intervention specialist and I am reading a chapter this week on "Deafness and Hearing Loss." I am trying to understand some basic ideas about Deaf culture.

What do I need to know as a special educator for working with children in the Deaf community?

Not all people/children who are deaf are part of the Deaf community. The words "Deaf" (pertaining to deaf people who attended deaf residential schools) and "deaf" (one can't hear) have two different meaning. Most kids who are/have been mainstreamed are not part of Deaf culture.

What type of good and/or bad experiences have you had in your education process?

In the old days, people were labeled as "deaf and dumb" because educators didn't know any better, as well as being called such things as mentally retarded. I was diagnosed as being mentally retarded by the school psychologist (late 60s-early 70s). Now, if that happened by today's standards, that psychologist would be out of a job and get sued, not to mention so would the school and district. That psychologist had to verbally apologize to my parents for diagnosing me as such. The good experiences are in my college years since 2002, as my earlier (Christian) college experiences were not good and I could not get any help or accomodations. Yes, that is in a Christian college and will name names if you'd like.

What modifications to your instruction has been the most successful?

I require note takers in all classes, unless notes aren't being taken. I do all my own testing and book reading assignments, as my reading level and comprehension is on the post-graduate level.

What are some main concerns for people in the Deaf community?

Some here are more deaf than I am (I have a severe sensorineural, bilateral hearing loss) and I wear two bte hearing aids, so they'd be able to answer this one. What I can say is that my main concern is that when I request assistance or ask someone to repeat something, I'm not trying to be funny or cute, I just didn't hear what was said. In addition, I'm assisted by a hearing dog by the name of Snickers, an Akita/German Shepherd mix, a big girl of 92#.

I thank you for any and all of your input. I hope by gaining this information, I can help more children.

I will also suggest you go to Types of Hearing Loss for more information.

 

[pek1]

Also, I am drinking wine so I would rather be clear minded when I answer your questions.

Red or white, shel? <<sniff, sniff>> Smells good!

 

[shel90]

Red or white, shel? <<sniff, sniff>> Smells good!

Hmm..my husband bought it for me..he says it is white wine but it looks red to me.

I am so in the mood for wine cuz I had been stressed with everything from workshops for developing a writing curriculm (yes, I promise u, my spelling is impeccable), learning to set up behavior programs, negiotiating with the sellers for the damn house, and blah blah..my laundry is 3 weeks behind schedule. AAAAHH..time for WINE!!! LOL!

 

[Aleser]

Hey there. For the purposes of this post, I'm deafblind, although in reality we can be strict about it and say blind and hoh. I am not very much a part of the Deaf community.

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What do I need to know as a special educator for working with children in the deaf community?

Learn sign language, and practise outside of an educational context. There's probably tons of social events in your area where you can work on your signing around those who -are- culturally deaf. Totally different experience than the classroom.


What type of good and/or bad experiences have you had in your education process?

I've had the school offer and essentially try and push on me interpreters I didn't particularly want, such as those that signed in ASL order which I have alot of trouble understanding. A disability office worker also tried to insist that because my vision was 20/100 at the time, I didn't -really- need braille materials, I should just get glasses. I have optic nerve atrophy, which is uncorrectable by any pair of glasses on God's earth.


What modifications to your instruction has been the most successful?

Getting a tactile interpreter. I cannot even start to sing their praises. Having teachers willing to Slow The Heck Down after they asked a question- my terp is lagging behind you, so I sometimes end up missing the chance to ask a question because you don't give me enough time to be aware you asked one. Some teachers will be nice about it and wait until they see them stop signing, which is great.


What are some main concerns for people in the Deaf community?

I think it's important to understand they -want- to be listened to, and to try and be as flexible as possible in how you'll communicate. Some people sign in asl, others in SEE, and some don't sign at all. Some will rely on speechreading, and that makes it your job to get them looking at you before you start speaking, and it helps to know what sounds are esspecially hard to see on the lips so you can substitute one word for another. Some people without -either- of these skills will require pen/paper or marker/paper for vi, computer -> computer communication, or devices like the one from freedom scientific (braille display on their end through a pacmate, a pda with a full keyboard on your end)

I think it also requires a certain amount of understanding that no two people will think alike. Some students and their parents will be 100% for cochlear implants, while others strongly against them. Being aware of those various issues that surround the deaf community can really help in making sure you don't offend anyone. You wouldn't make hitler jokes in front of an ashkenazi Jew, would you?


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I hope that helps.

 

[jillio]

I am sorry, I was suppose to get opinions for this assignment.

No need to apologizeand by internet, I didn't mean this particular website. Here you encounter deaf students, as well as deaf adults who have had the expereicne of navigating the school system, and their insight is indeed valuable. They are the true experts on the needs of the deaf studnet, because they have lived it. And I didn't mean to sound abrubt, just wanted to caution you about unreliable sources.

 

[jillio]

Hmm..my husband bought it for me..he says it is white wine but it looks red to me.

I am so in the mood for wine cuz I had been stressed with everything from workshops for developing a writing curriculm (yes, I promise u, my spelling is impeccable), learning to set up behavior programs, negiotiating with the sellers for the damn house, and blah blah..my laundry is 3 weeks behind schedule. AAAAHH..time for WINE!!! LOL!

Both your writing style and your spelling are impeccable! My laundry is always behind...maybe I need to drink some more wine!

 

[pek1]

A disability office worker also tried to insist that because my vision was 20/100 at the time, I didn't -really- need braille materials, I should just get glasses. I have optic nerve atrophy, which is uncorrectable by any pair of glasses on God's earth.

What a moron! Here, let me help . . . :rl::rl::rl::rl: An office worker? What cracker jack box did they get their opinion out of? I would also have reported this person to the deparment chair.