Deaf Education and Deaf Culture
The Manual/ Oral Controversy
Early Indentification and Parents
Background Characteristics of Deaf Students
Academic Achievement, Teacher and Educational Interpreter Quality
Role of Deaf Teachers and Deaf Professors
Deaf teachers and professors are often discriminated from teaching jobs and need degrees in higher education
Deaf teachers and professors are dedicated to encouraging younger deaf students to attend dead festivals and providing support to those that have a tough time with their identity in the hearing world
The role of a deaf teacher or professor is to visually perform signs and shows the association between American sign language and fingerspelling
It is important for parents to be educated on both communication and language choices in order for the deaf child to achieve their language development early and not later
Today, there are many deaf mentors, teachers, or role models that can provide information to parents on how to raise a deaf child in order for them to have a language and find their identity
Audiologists now have to provide parents who have children with resources for language learning, American sign language, and Deaf culture
Deaf children have a hard time learning school content such as lack of exposure to early language, lack of resources for academic testing, and a majority of teachers are not experienced in both ASL and English
Deaf children struggle in school and especially academic testing; a majority of deaf children do move on to upper-grade levels but the achievement level is below average
There are several deaf children with disabilities and have exposure to way more signing communities, involved in deaf culture, and basically a mixture of special and deaf education
Some deaf children are not only deaf, they may have diseases that may also limit other learning methods
The deaf community believes that all deaf children should have exposure to both sign language and spoken language in order to have knowledge in language
In the 1960s, rubella was severely spreading and lead to thousands of children becoming
It is believed that the manual/ oral controversy is not reconciled because it's suggested to use the oral method over sign language
During the 1950s-1960s, the oral method was not successful and this lead to bringing sign language back into existences
This debate was between Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander Graham Bell who had major differences with spoken language and sign language
Deaf students all have different hearing levels and this use to affect where they went to school (public school or school for the deaf)