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Deaf Education and Students
School and Other Sites
State schools for the deaf
provides the deaf child with the best and full access to deaf culture and sign language
Self contained classes-several classes for deaf children within hearing schools
Mainstreaming- deaf children are placed, often left alone, in regular hearing schools classrooms
Charter schools
funded by local board of education and are similar to hearing charter schools
Juvenile Corrections
deaf youth are scattered all over and at times placed alone
sometimes provided with interpreters for classes but not for their full stay
unable to socialize with peers and find counseling
Mentors/Instructors
Teaching Ceritification
The quality of communication and interaction between a teacher and student is not tested at all.
only few certified deaf teachers of deaf children
Interpreting Certification
interpreting requirements are either too low or non existent
Many interpreters are not qualified for deaf children in public schools
Deaf Teachers and Professors
often more skilled than hearing teachers in communicating with Deaf children of diverse language backgrounds
have been excluded from being hired as teachers in early childhood, k-12, and college settings for centuries
Diversity
Multiculturalism
deaf students bring their multiculturalism and multilinguism to the classroom
multicultural and multilingual with neither ASL or english make up 19.4% to 35% of the U.S Deaf population
Ethnic backgrounds
deaf latinx is very diverse
English or Black ASL is used in home
deaf asian children may come from homes wher tonal language is applied
LGBT
represent two intersections of two oppressed minorities being deaf and LGBT
are vulnerable to psychological and emotional stress by personal struggles of not understanding their own sexual feelings and experiencing parental rejection
GRI Survey
23,731 deaf children
8.8% intellectual disabed
7.2% learning disability
5.4% attention deficit disorder
6.0% development delay
Educational Approaches
Bilingual Approach
ASL is used as a language of instruction and English is taught as a second language in writing
Bimodal Bilingual Approach
spoken English classes along with ASL and English
Total Communication
speaking, signing ,fingerspelling, gesturing, or drawing
Simultaneous Communication
someone speaks and tries to sign at the same time
Manual Codes of English
people tried to invent different signing systems- Those are not languages
Contact Signing
English speakers who are still learning ASL interact with fluent asl speakers
Cued Speech
an invented system that uses different handshapes around the mouth to help the deaf person understand the words being spoken