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Originally Posted by dreamchaser
I need to get some information about how many mainstream school use an oral only approach, or are basically using English in all of their classes. Are most schools supplying interpreters and note takers and leaving kids in the class rooms? or are they separated out. I haven't been able to find any statistics on this for my research paper.
How did your school do it?
ty for info. My paper is due soon, and I just can't get enough info for it.
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dreamchaser,
Mainstream schools are oral as they serve a population that is over 99% hearing. How they deliver their instruction to deaf students is a function of each individual child's IEP and what it states.
In our case, our daughter's IEP indicated that her instruction was to be oral and that any TOD had to orally communicate with her as that is her language. There is now another deaf child in our school district and her IEP states that she is to have an ASL intrepter and her TOD (who happens to be the same as my daughter) can use ASL with her. So in this case, the same school district provided different services to deaf children in their schools because of what was indicated on their IEPs.
Hope that helps.
Rick