Hearing parents of deaf children...take notice!

Oceanbreeze said:
Here's the problem, Shelly. Most hearing parents of deaf kids DON'T know ASL, so they won't understand that video.

But, if you are going for the reverse effect, it'll work! :giggle:
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Yea...I should type up wha they are saying.

Basically these kids are sharing how they love ASL and their Deaf schools because they feel like they belong. They are worried about the budget cuts and pleading with the state levels not to shut their schools down because they dont want to be mainstreamed. They talked about how it would be like mainstreaming that they would miss out on information, depend on the terp all day, not have appropriate language models, and a few more.

Really cute with how these kids are conveying their concerns and how kids do really value getting their education at Deaf schools.
 
shel90 said:
Yea...I should type up wha they are saying.

Basically these kids are sharing how they love ASL and their Deaf schools because they feel like they belong. They are worried about the budget cuts and pleading with the state levels not to shut their schools down because they dont want to be mainstreamed. They talked about how it would be like mainstreaming that they would miss out on information, depend on the terp all day, not have appropriate language models, and a few more.

Really cute with how these kids are conveying their concerns and how kids do really value getting their education at Deaf schools.
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Sure is. :)
 
I wish I had the means and the resources to do a state-wide project where I can interview (and tape) deaf and hard of hearing kids to ask about their experiences in the mainstreamed settings. I probably should write a grant.
 
I just finished reading a long term study of social skills in deaf kids: it's very biased towards CIs as the most important technology for integrating deaf kids into mainstream education and says that greater access to hearing means greater social skills.

"One study conducted by, Farrugia and Austin (1980), examined social emotional adjustment patterns of hearing-impaired students in various educational settings using the Meadow Kendall Social Emotional Assessment Inventory for Deaf students (Meadow 1980). They chose students who had been in a particular program for at
least 3 years and had hearing parents. A sample of 200, 10 to 15 year old deaf students was grouped into four categories:
(a) deaf students in public schools,
(b) deaf students in residential schools,
(c) hard-of-hearing students in public
schools
(d) hearing students in public schools.

The results suggested that the deaf students in residential schools and hearing students in public schools were the most similar. Children who were deaf and hard-of-hearing in the mainstream setting exhibited the lowest levels of self-esteem."
 
DeafCaroline said:
it's very biased towards CIs as the most important technology for integrating deaf kids into mainstream education and says that greater access to hearing means greater social skills.

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The results suggested that the deaf students in residential schools and hearing students in public schools were the most similar. Children who were deaf and hard-of-hearing in the mainstream setting exhibited the lowest levels of self-esteem."
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I am confused. The first sentence said that the research is very biased towards CI which means it supports the use of CI as a way to improve the social skills. The last two sentences show that CI is not the way to improve the social skills. Please explain. Thanks.
 
DeafCaroline said:
I just finished reading a long term study of social skills in deaf kids: it's very biased towards CIs as the most important technology for integrating deaf kids into mainstream education and says that greater access to hearing means greater social skills.

"One study conducted by, Farrugia and Austin (1980), examined social emotional adjustment patterns of hearing-impaired students in various educational settings using the Meadow Kendall Social Emotional Assessment Inventory for Deaf students (Meadow 1980). They chose students who had been in a particular program for at
least 3 years and had hearing parents. A sample of 200, 10 to 15 year old deaf students was grouped into four categories:
(a) deaf students in public schools,
(b) deaf students in residential schools,
(c) hard-of-hearing students in public
schools
(d) hearing students in public schools.

The results suggested that the deaf students in residential schools and hearing students in public schools were the most similar. Children who were deaf and hard-of-hearing in the mainstream setting exhibited the lowest levels of self-esteem."
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Really? Then how come Clarke School for the Deaf's mainstream conference is basicly ALL about social skills? You know, MANY MANY MANY mainstreamed dhh kids have major major major social issues.........that includes CI kids too!
 
The girl explaining how the deaf will feel lonely in a mainstreamed environment has been my mainstreamed experience. Wise beyond her years.
 
I haven't seen deaf children in signing for awhile because I have been around hearing people and hearing kids toooooo long. I feel strong for deaf kids who cherish to keep deaf school open. Few of them mentioned, " i will be lonely in the rest of hearing school" that scares me the thought of seeing them to convert to hearing people with no soul of deaf. I hope deaf schools stay open as long as they can.
 
Buffalo said:
I am confused. The first sentence said that the research is very biased towards CI which means it supports the use of CI as a way to improve the social skills. The last two sentences show that CI is not the way to improve the social skills. Please explain. Thanks.
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Also, if the date of that self esteem study was 1980, as it says in the quoted portion, this predates CIs. They didn't begin implanting kids until quite a bit later. Could they have been referring to HAs?
 
It was a quote from the study, it's not the actual study itself. It was done by Washington University School of Medicine and was published in 2007. The premise is the more hearing the kid has in a mainstream setting the better they function socially. Therefore CI kids function the best in mainstream settings.

The reason I posted the quote is to show that deaf kids in deaf schools are happier than deaf kids (non CIS) in mainstream settings and therefore deaf schools are vital and should not be closed down.

here's the link to the PDF: Evaluating Social Skills in Long Term Cochlear Implants Recipients
 
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:shock: mah gawd, I couldn't be like 'em. They sign real good like adult a lot smarter than I am. No wonder, deaf tho I am 'terp or smthg else. But still they have to learn how to socialize w/ hearing ppl when they get job into hearing world. They can't expect only one sign in this world at the deaf school. That's my opinion.
 
deafbajagal said:
I wish I had the means and the resources to do a state-wide project where I can interview (and tape) deaf and hard of hearing kids to ask about their experiences in the mainstreamed settings. I probably should write a grant.
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I have been thinking for some time about a research project comparing the expeiriences of deaf kids in Deaf schools, and those in mainstream schools. I would like to do a 4 x 4 with one of the experimental groups focused on CI users. Wonder if we could write a grant to make this a interstate project?
 
jillio said:
I have been thinking for some time about a research project comparing the expeiriences of deaf kids in Deaf schools, and those in mainstream schools. I would like to do a 4 x 4 with one of the experimental groups focused on CI users. Wonder if we could write a grant to make this a interstate project?
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I'd be most interested in the results. I don't think I'd be the only one.
 
DeafCaroline said:
It was a quote from the study, it's not the actual study itself. It was done by Washington University School of Medicine and was published in 2007. The premise is the more hearing the kid has in a mainstream setting the better they function socially. Therefore CI kids function the best in mainstream settings.
The reason I posted the quote is to show that deaf kids in deaf schools are happier than deaf kids (non CIS) in mainstream settings and therefore deaf schools are vital and should not be closed down.

here's the link to the PDF: Evaluating Social Skills in Long Term Cochlear Implants Recipients
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I really disagree with that particular finding. That is exactly why I want to do a replication, but using instruments of my choice to assess and my operational definition of "social adjustment". That is just totally contrary to what we see from a clinical perspective. They may function an insigniificant amount better than say, a deaf student with HA and a terp in the mainstream, but it is my belief that they will function even better in a deaf setting. I think these results are dependent upon the fact that the CI users they had as participants had generally been raised and educated in an oral only environment and therefore, there was no comparison base for them.
 
deafskeptic said:
I'd be most interested in the results. I don't think I'd be the only one.
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The only thing that has been holding me back is the monumental nature of such an undertaking. But I really need to quit worrying about that and get my butt in gear. So what is a year or more devoted to a research project when it is the deaf kids that are still suffering based on misinformation.
 
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