So tonight I was really bored and decided to do some research on the enrollment of the oral deaf programs.Oral Deaf Education Schools Listed By Region (keywords: auditory, child, children, cochlear implant, talk, speak, speech, listen, hearing aids)
They are TINY!!!!! Including the ones that are P/K to 8 or early elementary
I couldn't find info on a lot of the programs listed on the oral deaf site.
One of them, Archbishop Ryan seems to have pretty much gone out of the oral business...I remember a few years ago they had a Sign track and a speech track. The school itself has been absorbed into a School for the Blind)
Clarke School (Noho) has 60
DePaul has 33
Magnolia Speech has 71
CID has 18 (and I thought that it would be bigger!)
St. Joseph's has 65
Memphis Oral has 13
Atlanta Speech has 309 (but then again they serve the whole spectrum of special ed. It is NOT just for oral kids)
Moog Center has 34 (and as an aside it's now early intervention-2...I vaguely remember back in college it went up to sixth grade)
Ohio Valley Voices 38
Omaha Hearing 38
Desert Voices 16
Presbyterian Ear Oral-22
Sunshine Cottage 116
Jean Weingarten 44
Oralinga School 63
A lot of the oral programs listed seem to almost be a part of general programs for kids with disablities. (but they have really good speech therapists so they're counted as oral deaf programs .I also see that a couple of AVT programs are listed to "beef things up" A couple seem to serve both dhh kids and speech impaired kids.
Compare those numbers with enrollments at Deaf Schools or Dhh formal programs, which compared to these numbers are HUGE. Most of the oral programs are preschools..One good thing about oral programs nowadays is that they're more open to going " Your kid needs ASL" sooner. Maybe that's why oral deaf education seems to be "improving" And yes, there are prolly a lot of oral sucesses a la me, shel, bajagirl who would love to learn ASL but are thought not to "need" it :roll:
I know too, it does seem like there are parents who are open to ASL, but just want speech as their kid's first language.....I really do think that if state Deaf Schools and oral experts collaborated, there would be a HELL of a lot more kids in Deaf Schools and Deaf programs.
They are TINY!!!!! Including the ones that are P/K to 8 or early elementary
I couldn't find info on a lot of the programs listed on the oral deaf site.
One of them, Archbishop Ryan seems to have pretty much gone out of the oral business...I remember a few years ago they had a Sign track and a speech track. The school itself has been absorbed into a School for the Blind)
Clarke School (Noho) has 60
DePaul has 33
Magnolia Speech has 71
CID has 18 (and I thought that it would be bigger!)
St. Joseph's has 65
Memphis Oral has 13
Atlanta Speech has 309 (but then again they serve the whole spectrum of special ed. It is NOT just for oral kids)
Moog Center has 34 (and as an aside it's now early intervention-2...I vaguely remember back in college it went up to sixth grade)
Ohio Valley Voices 38
Omaha Hearing 38
Desert Voices 16
Presbyterian Ear Oral-22
Sunshine Cottage 116
Jean Weingarten 44
Oralinga School 63
A lot of the oral programs listed seem to almost be a part of general programs for kids with disablities. (but they have really good speech therapists so they're counted as oral deaf programs .I also see that a couple of AVT programs are listed to "beef things up" A couple seem to serve both dhh kids and speech impaired kids.
Compare those numbers with enrollments at Deaf Schools or Dhh formal programs, which compared to these numbers are HUGE. Most of the oral programs are preschools..One good thing about oral programs nowadays is that they're more open to going " Your kid needs ASL" sooner. Maybe that's why oral deaf education seems to be "improving" And yes, there are prolly a lot of oral sucesses a la me, shel, bajagirl who would love to learn ASL but are thought not to "need" it :roll:
I know too, it does seem like there are parents who are open to ASL, but just want speech as their kid's first language.....I really do think that if state Deaf Schools and oral experts collaborated, there would be a HELL of a lot more kids in Deaf Schools and Deaf programs.