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Originally Posted by Deaf Mortgage
Google up and see if you can find...
Milwaukee Sign Language School (k-8)
Foster and William High school (9-12).
Its in Milwaukee, Wisconsin... They have bibi program there and doing ok so far. Need more strength into their program to be fully bibi. They do have several deaf teachers inolved in classroom as main teacher with hearing students. Also have few ASL teacher on staff to teach sign language directly to hearing students. Have nice size amount of deaf student program there as well.
They are working with bibi concept with K4, k5 kids and hopefully will graduate with full concept of ASL by 12th grade. Its very cool place to teach if you do not mind intercities kids.
By the way... they are working on converting into charter school from Milwaukee Public School. Once they switch over to charter, they will explode to much better progams.
Again... I perfer high-qualified licensed teachers to teach ASL. I dont want us to water down our skills while teaching, it requires a lot energy of our time to invest our knowledge and skills into Hearing community. May we sow and reap plentiful afterward.
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I totally agree about watering down the skills. I guess I thought that most native signers would teach good ASL, and only Deaf signers or Codas would be allowed. Heck,,, I don't know what I thought. I just wish that everyone could sign so nobody ever gets left out because of a hearing loss or speech problem.. I am glad that I asked though, because there was much to consider and I was looking for input to widen my perspective. Thanks so much for your reply.
