The Efficiency ASL/English Bilingual Education: Considering Public Schools. American Annals of the Deaf.
VOLUME 152, NO. 1, 2007
Here is proof that BiBi is not really a new concept in Deaf Ed.
Dual language methodology is not
new. Indeed, the concept of using dual
languages in deaf education has been
available since the early 19th century
(Kannapell, 1974). However, the dual
language approach was discontinued
during the push for oralism after the
Milan Conference of 1880 and decisions
by the Conference of Educational
Administrators of Schools and Program
for the Deaf in the mid-1920s (Nover,
2000). A reemergence, evident in the
last two decades (Johnson et al., 1989;
LaSasso & Lollis, 2003; Strong, 1995),
has created a change in teacher training
options, as programs in France
(Bouvet, 1990), Denmark (Hansen,
1994), the United States (Padden &
Ramsey, 1998), and England (Knight &
Swanwick, 2002) have begun to see
promising results. As training options
have become more available, the forward
momentum continues.