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Originally Posted by mbenson5
My question this week is: how did you manage communication when you went to school? I guess I am assuming public school like I went to, but now that I think of it, I don't remember any people who were deaf where I went to school. I graduated with a class of 120, so that should tell you something about my rural origins...  What I am wondering is if you had an interpreter, if you attended a school specifically for the deaf, or if you were able to lip read? Thanks again for your willingness to share!!
Melissa  |
I just signed and talked, anyway I can to get people to understand me at school. I went to mainstreamed schools. And was in class with 10 deaf kids
up til I got to 4th grade. At 4th grade, it was a big struggle, I didn't have any interpreter. I convinced my special ed. teacher to let me go to hearing class in 4th grade. So without listening to teacher... I study and got tutor.
So I passed the 4th grade, and then 5th grade, and then to 6th grade.
Then when I went to jr. high, I went to hearing classes, but got interpreters.
Then in High School, I went to classes and got interpreters and notetakers.