What makes you hate it? Imperfect oral?
I don't care if it is oral or sign language. I prefer both methods which is better for me to communicate with.
If you have a terrible speech, then so what. You can try to practice with your voice by reading the baby books in private. It really helps you to improve your voice once a while. It has nothing to do with your speech, but it makes your vocal stronger so that you will do next project is to learn the speech correctly. Of course, it is not easy, but it is a big challenge for you. Maybe, in four months, your speech would be 75 percent better.
My speech is just fine. Has nothing to do with my speech skills.
It is everything behind it..the discriminatory attitudes, the politics, and the risks the deaf kids are put in for language delays by denying them full access to language.
Speech has absulotely nothing to do with it, especially mine.
If u read all the old deaf ed threads, u will see why I do not support oral-only deaf ed.
I do not need to improve my speech skills because I simply do not care anymore. This is who I am perfect or not.
I think that I agree with you about a deaf education which is a big problem. It would be great for the deaf kids to mainstream in a hearing school. It would be much harder for some deaf kids to make hearing friends. I believe that it is the best to start with little kids involved in a hearing school so that the hearing kids know a deaf person since they were in the same school. This will be successful.
I remember one deaf student who attend Clarke and he enjoyed being with deaf students. He grew up in hearing schools most of his life. He didn't have a problem with hearing students except some of them talked too fast that he didn't like, but he got used to them for so long.
Hearing school:
Pro - better education and continue studying without stopping...
Con - hearing students talk too fast that an interpreter sometimes has a hard time so she decided to interpret them to follow the teacher's lectures. It would have missed the opportunity for a deaf to know what the students really have to say so that the deaf learns the different view between the students' and a teacher's comments.
Deaf school:
Pro - excellent social skills
Con - poor education which often stopped or interrupt patterns in some way. The committees failed not to think of them as hearing students. They did not teach them to prepare to meet the SAT's skills.
Where is your old thread link that I could read your comments?
poor education? Really? All deaf schools? Again, here we go with the myths that all deaf schools provide poor quality education. Oh boy..when does it end?
sher90 - I think I recalled that you were a teacher. Was it successful for you to teach deaf kids at a school?
deafdyke - That's true. I was too focus on our deaf students. I would like to see our deaf kids to be success in the hearing world, and I expect them to be ability to do what they want to be in a professional career or become an owner of a business. I impressed with some AD users have a very good career.
I met some NTID students, and they quit their job because they had a communication problem with their boss. They now work at some odd jobs with a low salary. One top NTID student quit a high paid job and worked at Super Kmart as a stocker because she was too tired of communication. She was my classmate. My good friend works as an architect for 15 years, and he never got a promotion because his speech is so poor. He cannot afford to quit his job because he is paying his house mortgage.
I teach mostly elementary deaf children with special needs so I dont know what your definition of "successful" is. In my eyes, they are all successful and I dont care what the hearing world says.
Those people who got discriminated because of their poor speech werent at fault. It is the hearing people who are DEAD WRONG for doing that. They need to meet deaf people's needs instead of expecting deaf people meeting their hearing needs. I just do not accpet that and I dont care if someone has poor or good speech skills.
The general hearing public is the problem with their discriminatory attitudes.
I thought Austine was one of the good deaf schools? It was, in the '80's.
Those people who got discriminated because of their poor speech werent at fault. It is the hearing people who are DEAD WRONG for doing that. They need to meet deaf people's needs instead of expecting deaf people meeting their hearing needs. I just do not accpet that and I dont care if someone has poor or good speech skills.
The general hearing public is the problem with their discriminatory attitudes.