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Old 01-18-2008, 09:37 PM   #164 (permalink)
jillio
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Originally Posted by shel90 View Post
My brother works in a Deaf school and it is a TC program. He is studying for his Master's degree in the BiBi philosophy and he told me that there is no way that his place of employment is using a BiBi approach. Even in their handbook, they identified themselves as a TC program. BTW, he told me that AZ doesnt accept the BiBi philosophy for the public educational setting..same thing with California. Good question would be is that ...how many other states forbid BiBi education. Problem is that they are referring to the Spanish speaking population and forgot about the deaf/hoh population. Spanish-speaking hearing children can hear so therefore, they have full access to spoken English while deaf children dont so how is that fair...

Anyways...TC are not just in public schools only.. they are also in Deaf schools too. There are also oral deaf schools too.
**nodding agreement** The fact is, there are relatively few Bi-Bi programs out there. And you are correct, that most policy isset based on the immigrant population, and the policy makers seem to forget that we have a native U.S. population that needs ESL as well.
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