Meggie2

I am interest in your comment. I am attending public school and soon will graduate in couple weeks. I am Hard-hearing, if you are interest. What i have seen that there is only few deaf attend public school.

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VamPyroX

Are you deaf? Does your school have a mainstream program?

The title of this thread and your comment seem to be two different things. So, it's making me wonder if you're asking us for our opinion so that a discussion can be brought up or you're writing a paper and wanted our opinion on it?

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Meggie2

No, I just interest that not many deaf students attend public school. Yes I am hard-hearing. Only 11 attending at my school including myself.

VamPyroX

What's your definition of "public school"?

I attended mainstream school when I was growing up.

I started out at a private institute... Central Institute for the Deaf. It was an oral-only school. So, I didn't know sign language until later.

When I moved to another state, I was placed in a public elementary school that had a deaf and mainstream program. That was when I began learning sign language. My first mainstream class was when I was in the 3rd grade... for math. (I did participate in a couple class activities such as sing-alongs when I was in the 1st and 2nd grade.) As the years went by, I joined the mainstream class for science. By the 8th grad in junior high school, I was fully mainstreamed.

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Meggie2

Full of hearing people

Mizzou

I was in mainstreamed for my life. K-12. I have shared with deaf friends and hearing friends in some period between the classes. I am ALLLLLLL DEAF since born.

Meggie2

I wasn't. I been Hard-hearing since 9 months old

Mizzou

No one is HOH or Deaf..... it is always Deaf! lolz

VamPyroX

So, a school with a deaf program isn't a public school?

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shel90

Profoundly deaf since birth, mainstreamed with all hearing from k to 12th grade. Knew no sign language....it wasnt good for me at all due to so many reasons.

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deafdyke

Well I think mainstream as in self contained classroom and magnet program (ie where a hearing school acts as a "base" for a large population of dhh students) can work out well. However, I am against mainstreaming with minimal accomondations, unless the student has shown that they have the academic abilty to function in a regular school regular classes, with minimal accomondations.

Meggie2

Ok, I am surprise. Everyone says it public school with deaf program. Only public school with deaf program in entire Escambia County

shel90

I had the academic ability to function in a regular school with regular classes with NO accodomations but even with that, it was a burden on me.

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Meggie2

I use to have academic ability to function with regular classes without any accodomations until 3rd grade. I got held back.

Meggie2

Is it depend on deaf person ability to function. Sorry. I been entirely growing up in hearing world. I am still learning about deaf culture.

deafbajagal

Is it good for deaf/hh students to be in a public school? It depends on the student (hearing loss, communication needs, social needs, academic needs, etc.), his/her family situation, and the school itself. I've seen a wide spectrum of where a public school is awesome at meeting the needs of a student...to where the public school should be closed down for the way it handled the needs (if handled at all) of the students.

I hope your experience in school was a good and positive one.

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Pinky678

Do you know ASL? Have you attend to college?

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Pinky678

Are you growing up at Deaf School or Mainstream?

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deafdyke

mainstream, regular classes regular school with minimal accomondations (and that's even with some other issues) Trust me Pinky.......mainstream special ed is not great. Like if you don't suceed with minimal accomondations like preferential seating and Resource Room, you're usually lumped in with the "Ummmm who's President So-and-So" dumbasses who tend to be legion in special ed programs. Besides, think of it this way. Why is it that people complain about how crappy public schools are.....but suddenly they are the PERFECT place for disabled kids?
Personally, I think that ALL dhh (and classicly disabled) kids should start off at a school especially for their disabilty and THEN gradually transistion to mainstreaming. I really think that it should be easier to do a split placement. Like a couple of days at the Deaf School/program, and then a couple of days at a mainstream program.
Also, whether or not a mainstream placement works out well or not, is very often due to socioeconomic factors. Like a mainstream placement in East St. Louis or Camden NJ or any other crappy city would prolly not work out well.

Matilda

Mainstreaming was stressful and lonely for me as I had no accommodations whatsoever in the 60s. But it may be different nowadays depending on sufficient accommodations but IMO, I would stay with the Deaf school or unit among our own peers.

Phillips

Well ...

First oral school> K to 4
Second deaf school >5 to 8
Last mainstream >8 to 12 grade
then graduated..
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Now part time college

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Reba

"Mainstream" or "general" education (the state-preferred term) in the local public schools of my area usually consist of 1-4 deaf/hoh students with interpreters for all their classes. Usually one period per day the deaf/hoh students go to a "resource" room for one-on-one "tutoring." They have no contact with deaf adults or the local deaf community.

paperclip

I was mainstreamed, there were two HOH students including me. I graduated with honors, the second dropped out. My accomodations constisted of two hours a week of speech therapy until the day I graduated. I had no reason to go to a deaf school. I never learned ASL, I live in a rural area on a farm. It was never an option for me. I live with a family where excuses (including being HOH) were not acceptable reasons for lack of sucess. I used my voice and requested accomadations in small ways. For example, my test were based out of the book. If I memorize the book, I pass the test. I taught myself how to learn alone. Unfortunately, for some, their voices are not heard. Going through a mainstream school HOH has prepared me well for college. I feel lucky for this forum has clearly shown me that many have not have such a great experience. I was lonely and felt left out, but I saw it as necessary. Perhaps because of the desire to meet my parents expectations.

Because of my sucess at most areas of my life-ie academically, I have accepted that I will be mainstreamed in all areas of my life. Which makes me sad sometimes. Sometimes not. One year from now, I am graduating and looking at grad schools, I question if I am happy, or if I am lonely. Or if I have the potential of greater happiness becoming a part of this culture and devoloping better social skills. I don't know what I will do.

People have different goals, different needs, different turning points and different life experiences. I don't know if this answers your question.

Meggie2

mainstream all of my life except for Fsdb in 6th grade. I didn't like it.

Meggie2

I Use PSE

VamPyroX

I'm not very fluent in ASL. I'm more PSE and SEE than ASL.

I've already graduated from college with 2 degrees.

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VamPyroX

FSDB?

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