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Originally Posted by rockdrummer
Teaching english and teaching speech are two different things.
I think that is part of the point. Why aren't speech skills part of the cirriculum?
I'ts going to be harder for deaf kids no matter how you slice it. Teaching two languages puts additional load on these kids. Life is not easy and I wouldn't risk a childs chances to succeed in the real world by taking the easy way out.
Yes education is important but what's wrong with adding speech. And what good is it to have all of those skills but not be able to articulate them to the hearing population?
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Cuz deaf kids can't hear so speech and spoken language isn't fully accesible to them or so what I thought?
Why teach using a language that they don't have full access to? I guess the ideal classroom would have having the kids and teacher constantly misundertsanding each other if speech was incorporated to the lessons. I sure wouldn't want that additional stress on the kids. Didn't u read what I said about testing that with my students a few hours ago? Already within 5 mins, their frustration level shot up and they were constantly asking me what did I say or to pls repeat myself. Can u imagine them being in that kind of educational setting 6 hours a day 5 days a week? That will lower the quality of education for them and for me, that is just wrong. I sure wouldn't feel good about myself as a teacher if I didn't ensure that they all have equal access to language and communication. That wud just go against my principles.
That is why speech is not in the general curriculm. We r using the public school curriculm so, of course, speech is not designed into it cuz hearing children don't need it hence our speech classes.
We have speech classes for all the concerns u have posted. In a perfect word, all deaf kids would aquire speech skills but the fact is just the opposite.
I am speechless (not literally) that people think it is ok to use both at the same time during instruction. It doesn't make sense to me to do that to those who have difficulty with their speech and lipreading/listening skills. Using a language that is fully accessible to them makes more sense to me.
Pls..have either of u have experienced teaching a classroom full of deaf/hoh kids?can u both become teachers and maybe u both can design a curriculm that all deaf children can successfully learn from using both speech and ASL at the SAME time during instruction. Then I can learn from u.
