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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!
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.
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."
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."
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.
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 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?
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
I'd be most interested in the results. I don't think I'd be the only one.