jillio
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Horrible isn't it. The oral program has appropriate services, bi-bi doesn't and won't. They don't want to change the services. They think AVT or aural rehab is against the bi-bi philosophy because it uses the weakest sense (hearing) instead of the strongest (vision). Or that is what the program director told me.
If you don't agree with the philosophy of bi-bi, you have other options available to you. If you don't think your daughter is getting the services she should have in a bi-bi environment, you have the option of placing her somewhere else. If you don't think the school is spending approriate time on AVT, you have the option of contracting for outside services. What you don't have the option of doing is forcing the school you have chosen to place her in to change their philosophy just to suit your whims. It is working for the other children. You knew what the philosophy of the school was prior to placing her there. If you have decided that you aren't satisfied with that placement, then change placements. You do not have the option of forcing a bi-bi program to adopt oral philopophies just because that is what you want for your child. Exercise your options. You have plenty of them available to you.