SpeedyHawk, that is really sad. B/c I DO think that parents of teens and middle schoolers would see that as an awesome "independent living" sitution. I think that might be a way to save res schools......promote living there as an independent living oppertuntiy. I know some Deaf Schools like MSSD have them.
You know, I know we bashed "foster care" as a really bad placement. BUT, I wonder if we could maybe have something like "Deaf School care" They would be "surrogate families" for the littlest kids. I thought that most Deaf Schools had a pretty active Deaf community. Maybe some Deaf Community families could volunteer to be "surrogate families" for the little kids who are in the odd situtions. I don't think that little kids can handle group living just yet, and DO need the stability of a family. I know off the top of my head that's how Wyoming School for the Deaf handled it, and that is how Manitoba School for the Deaf handled it. I mean although it's best for little kids to live at home, (and most dhh kids can be served via day programs) there are still kids who are from really rural situtions, (how is a dhh kid from an Alaskn reservation in the middle of now where supposed to get an education?) or kids from very dangerous towns or kids from places where even hearing kids get a super crappy education. There's also the fact that in states where mainstream special ed is crappy, the Deaf School (or blind school in some cases, even thou most blind school kids are mentally handicappedl) is really good.
faire joure. It is completely different. You can revamp living situtions and remediate loopholes and stuff, easier then you can remediate a methodology. I do understand that many older people may have suffered trauma in the dorms. The reasons why the dorm living situtions were so bad in the old days were b/c it was before they had rules and protection and stuff like that. It was like that almost everywhere.....We all know about places like Willowbrook : Willowbrook State School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guess what? There are still state schools/developmental centers in existence ...but they have cleaned up and reformed a LOT. That is the same for dorms at res schools. Notice that virtually everyone who is protesting is from the era where that sort of thing happened. That would be like adults from when that speaking tube was first popularized being against oral training with the body worn hearing aids.
It is a lot easier to revamp a living sitution then it is to revamp a particualr methodology. Oralism is still " deaf kids only need oral and aural training...they don't need stuff like ASL or speechreading or other "disabilty stuff" It's the same shit, just a different day.
Don't you think that if the dorms were still so bad, they would have been shut down years and years ago?
You know, I know we bashed "foster care" as a really bad placement. BUT, I wonder if we could maybe have something like "Deaf School care" They would be "surrogate families" for the littlest kids. I thought that most Deaf Schools had a pretty active Deaf community. Maybe some Deaf Community families could volunteer to be "surrogate families" for the little kids who are in the odd situtions. I don't think that little kids can handle group living just yet, and DO need the stability of a family. I know off the top of my head that's how Wyoming School for the Deaf handled it, and that is how Manitoba School for the Deaf handled it. I mean although it's best for little kids to live at home, (and most dhh kids can be served via day programs) there are still kids who are from really rural situtions, (how is a dhh kid from an Alaskn reservation in the middle of now where supposed to get an education?) or kids from very dangerous towns or kids from places where even hearing kids get a super crappy education. There's also the fact that in states where mainstream special ed is crappy, the Deaf School (or blind school in some cases, even thou most blind school kids are mentally handicappedl) is really good.
faire joure. It is completely different. You can revamp living situtions and remediate loopholes and stuff, easier then you can remediate a methodology. I do understand that many older people may have suffered trauma in the dorms. The reasons why the dorm living situtions were so bad in the old days were b/c it was before they had rules and protection and stuff like that. It was like that almost everywhere.....We all know about places like Willowbrook : Willowbrook State School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guess what? There are still state schools/developmental centers in existence ...but they have cleaned up and reformed a LOT. That is the same for dorms at res schools. Notice that virtually everyone who is protesting is from the era where that sort of thing happened. That would be like adults from when that speaking tube was first popularized being against oral training with the body worn hearing aids.
It is a lot easier to revamp a living sitution then it is to revamp a particualr methodology. Oralism is still " deaf kids only need oral and aural training...they don't need stuff like ASL or speechreading or other "disabilty stuff" It's the same shit, just a different day.
Don't you think that if the dorms were still so bad, they would have been shut down years and years ago?
