Originally Posted by shel90

I also wanted to add this...

as for mixed results, here is a perfect example....my school is a BiBi program but we got 74 new students in the past 4 years from the mainstreamed program. That is MORE THAN HALF of our student population so of course, the test results are gonna show a larger margin of low literacy scores due to those kids being language delayed from not having full access to language during their younger years. It has nothing to do with the BiBi program...however, I can say this...all of the kids' language and literacy skills have improved dramatically since being referred to our program. None of them have regressed so if they had been with us since toddlers, they would be performing at much much higher levels.

Right now, we have a first and 2nd grade class composed of kids who have been with us since babies and all of them are reading at grade level. One kid is even reading at one grade level above and he is from a hearing family.

Because I see and personally experience this, I believe that the bibi approach is the least riskiest approach of all.