Simple Q&A for deaf educators, and those are or have gone through a deaf school.

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Dixie

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I know this is probably the least expected way, but with my chaotic schedule I just flat realized it will be impossible for me to find the time to do individual interviews online with those that have offered to let me use them as a source in my composition final research paper, which is about deaf education.

I have split this into two sections, one for deaf educators, one for deaf students. HOH people are welcome to answer as well.

Deaf Educators_______________________________________________
1. What do you believe is the biggest obstacle facing the current educational system in the US with regards to deaf and hoh students?

2. With the implementation of the NCLB Act of 2001, mainstream schools changed curriculum, added more standardized testing and so forth for all the students and teachers alike meet a certain 'standard'. How has the NCLB affected the way you teach your classes to your deaf students?

3. With the current system, do you feel that the majority of deaf students complete their secondary education well prepared for post-secondary education at a 4-year institution? If not, state why.

4. If there is anything you would change about your local district, state mandates, or federal guidelines regarding teaching deaf and hoh students, what would be? Please state why.

5. What is the one subject that your students struggle with the most?
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Deaf Students_____________________________________________
1. What state or country did you attend school? Was this a deaf school, or a mainstream school?

2.Do you feel overall that you received a well-rounded education in all core subjects?

3. What method of instruction did you receive: oral, manual, or a combination of the two? If you were mainstreamed, what support services were you provided with, if any: Interpreter, FM system, preferential seating, note taker, or real-time captioning, or a combination of any of them?

4. If you went to a deaf school was it normal for you to be pulled out of class on a regular basis to receive speech therapy and/or sessions with the audiologist?

5. If you went to a mainstream school and utilized support services, do you feel that they were adequately provided to you? If not, why?

6. What you feel are your academic strengths as a deaf/hoh student? Why? What do you feel are your academic weaknesses as a deaf/hoh student? Why?
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If anyone has any further questions or comments, feel free to add them.
 
1. What state or country did you attend school? Was this a deaf school, or a mainstream school?
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England. I've been to special school (for kids with varying disabilites), Mainstream school, and mainstream school with PHU.

2.Do you feel overall that you received a well-rounded education in all core subjects?
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No. I'm lucky as my dad is a teacher. So I also had suplimentary education at home.

3. What method of instruction did you receive: oral, manual, or a combination of the two? If you were mainstreamed, what support services were you provided with, if any: Interpreter, FM system, preferential seating, note taker, or real-time captioning, or a combination of any of them?
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I was educated Orally. Ironically I felt I had a better education at the first high school that didn't have PHU since the teachers used to write everything on the black board for me. In the 2nd school I didn't get that. I was supposed to lipread and my educational progress took a bit of a nose dive although it was much better for me socially since there were other deaf kids there.

5. If you went to a mainstream school and utilized support services, do you feel that they were adequately provided to you? If not, why?
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No not really. I just got hearing aid and FM system. That was about it. In the 2nd school they didn't even write on the blackboard much so it make things very hard to know what they were talking about.


6. What you feel are your academic strengths as a deaf/hoh student? Why? What do you feel are your academic weaknesses as a deaf/hoh student? Why?
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When I was at school my best subject was Biology. My worst subject was P.E. I hated that subject since the P.E. teacher used to make fun of me.
 
overthepond said:
Partily hearing Unit
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:ty: charlotte. this is the first time i've ever heard of that term before. i don't think that's used much here in the u.s. instead, we use "deaf and hard of hearing program" and in some cases, "hearing impaired program."
 
Dixie, Have you thought of putting up your research paper after you are done with the 'interviews' online??? I would be very interested in the educators part.

I am sure that some people will pm their answers to you.
 
Deaf Educators_______________________________________________
1. What do you believe is the biggest obstacle facing the current educational system in the US with regards to deaf and hoh students?

Language delays adversly affecting literacy skills.

2. With the implementation of the NCLB Act of 2001, mainstream schools changed curriculum, added more standardized testing and so forth for all the students and teachers alike meet a certain 'standard'. How has the NCLB affected the way you teach your classes to your deaf students?

There is more pressure to teach to test to the kids and run thru the curriculm at a fast pace to try to cover everything instead of going at the students' pace and interests. It is a ridiculous way to teach but the law is the law...grr!

3. With the current system, do you feel that the majority of deaf students complete their secondary education well prepared for post-secondary education at a 4-year institution? If not, state why.

I teach elementary so I dont see the results at the secondary education level but I would say that as long as the children establish a strong language foundation during their first 5 years, the current system does prepare them pretty well.

4. If there is anything you would change about your local district, state mandates, or federal guidelines regarding teaching deaf and hoh students, what would be? Please state why.


Recognize that the curriculm for deaf and hoh students should put so much emphasis on phonetics for learning how to read.
5. What is the one subject that your students struggle with the most?

Writing
 
Buffalo said:
Could you please explain this more?
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In the early childhood education, the curriculm has so many lessons on decoding and phonetics and it drives me nuts because I have to constantly modify them to meet my students' needs. Very time consuming for us, teachers. For those who have CIs or are hoh, they are used but there are those who dont have any auditory benefit...a curriculm should be designed to meet their needs. We use the public school curriculm, so it is expected but at the same time, the state needs to approve a supplemental curriculm designed for deaf/hoh children but the state always turns down our proposals. Stupid!
 
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Deaf Educators_______________________________________________
1. What do you believe is the biggest obstacle facing the current educational system in the US with regards to deaf and hoh students? Lack of quality early childhood intervention programs that gives the students a head start in language acquisition

2. With the implementation of the NCLB Act of 2001, mainstream schools changed curriculum, added more standardized testing and so forth for all the students and teachers alike meet a certain 'standard'. How has the NCLB affected the way you teach your classes to your deaf students?
Yes - the NCLB really hurt the progress of our deaf students in many ways

3. With the current system, do you feel that the majority of deaf students complete their secondary education well prepared for post-secondary education at a 4-year institution? If not, state why. No. State-wide exams will reflect that they are not ready.

4. If there is anything you would change about your local district, state mandates, or federal guidelines regarding teaching deaf and hoh students, what would be? Please state why.

I need to think about that answer before responding.

5. What is the one subject that your students struggle with the most?

Language Arts
 
Thank you everyone for your responses. Just so you know I received a score of 20/20 for my rough draft of the paper. The final draft is due on Dec. 10th and I will let you know of the outcome as soon as I receive my grades. My instructor seemed very interested in my paper and encouraged me to dive deeper, which I will.
 
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