That is so wrong! So wrong...some hearing people need some serious traning.
I used to work in a TC program at a public school...when i would try to offer suggestions or talk to the general education teachers about our students, they treated me exactly the same way that audi treated you. They told the principal that they prefer him to deal with me as if I am some problem child or something. I hated the attitudes at that school.
Come and work at my school, u wont be treated that way for sure!