deafdyke

jillo that doesn't surprise me.I think many parents may be well intentioned, but at the same time they may be VERY clueless about dhh related stuff. Or they think that deaf schools and programs are straight out of the 60's. Or they think that all Deaf people think that all dhh kids need to be voice off and go off to res school. Some parents of today might be a bit more down to earth, since they may have witnessed the downsides of mainstreaming and IEPs and stuff, and had exposure to real live dhh people. One of the major things that I absolutly positively HATE is the unspoken insistution that if a dhh kid is oral and mainstreamed, they will reap ALL the benifits of the hearing/mainstream world.
faire joure..regarding the small enrollements in the Option Schools...I was stumbling around last night on the St. Joseph's site. It said that tution can be partly covered (up to 60%) by health insurance. We all know how health insurance benifits have gone down. Even decent health insurance costs a hell of a lot, and may not pay out a lot in benifits. That could be a reason why there's just a small number of kids in the private oral preschools....b/c they represent families with very generous health insurances. That's actually a big reason too why you don't see kids with HAs at oral schools a lot......b/c of health insurance costs. Yes, public benifit and insurance covers kids.....BUT again they want to make sure that public oral programs can educate them,

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Miss-Delectable

If we could make a video documentary with experiences shared by deaf people who have been brought up under oralism and the negative effects that comes with it.

I imagine it would have impacted a lot on hearing folks because stories would be quite visual as well the expressions showed.

If one was made then I would love it to be submitted in Cannes film festival and the rest of international film festivals.

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Jiro

it was already done. somebody posted it in AD 2 years ago. I couldn't find it

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Miss-Delectable

Really. It would be nice to have a wider and comprehensive documentary done. Oh well, it was just a thought.

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jillio

Excellent idea.

jillio

And aimed directly at hearing parents, including educational concerns throughout the child's school years...not just focused on the very early years as are the implant industry and the oral proponents.

Bottesini

Why not to just educate humanity? Hearing parents yes, but that is a very narrow audience.

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We're actually working on that.

dogmom

I look forward to this documentary-

deafdyke

Agreed!!!!!!! Faire joure check out this link: Call for Proposals: 32nd Annual Mainstream Conference
Notice that they have as a possible topic disrepency between written and spoken English.
A lot of kids can speak but their written English is really weird. That is b/c although they can speak, they don't have full command of English.

Miss-Delectable

That was the idea I would like to see used in the documentary

Really? That's great. Would be great to interview deafies from US, UK, Europe, Australia who were taught under Oralism from the 40s,50s and every decades since then because the way they were treated changes every decades.

Also to show a link in decline in deaf's education and jobs was caused by the soul destroying decision by Milan conference 1815. And show that AG Bell wasn't a saint but the father of cultural genocide. But I guess that's best saved for another documentary.

Looking forward to seeing this documentary.

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jillio

You are speaking up now, and that is what matters.

jillio

Mostly because of the urgency in hearing parents having the information, given the impact they can have (negatively and positively) on a deaf child's entire life.

But you are correct. Everyone needs to be educated.

jillio

I was going to let you make that statement.

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