Change the future for a deaf child

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jillio said:
That would be an oral only environment. If that is what you want for your child, then enroll her in that program. You have no legal right to force a BiBi program to become an oral program simply for your convenience. You have a choice. Make it.
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When did this turn into an attack on my choices? I was discussing AV and AV teachers, not my daughter or our situation. Drop it.
 
faire_jour said:
There are many bi-bi schools that have jearned the benefits of providing spoken language to deaf students. Maryland School for the Deaf is a good example. They have a CI program that uses spoken language from 50-90% of the classroom time. It doesn't mean that it isn't a bi-bi school. I have also heard about The Learning Center in Mass having a great bi-bi program that is still appropriate for CI users.
Just because my school isn't doing it yet, doesn't mean it shouldn't.
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Utah School for Deaf-Blind
Oral Departments
846 20th Street
Ogden, UT 84401
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Outreach
2870 Connor
Salt Lake City, UT 84109
(801) 468-0337
Birth - 21 y

Auditory Oral / Verbal Programs T-Z, Other Countries, and Global

Here is a program that is in your state.
 
faire_jour said:
Isn't it sad that if a parent wants an appropriate education for their child, they must move?
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Understand, my father put most of his non working hours educating me and he never complained. He just did it so I would develop to my full potential.

I don't have any sympathy for you.

He never complained.
 
faire_jour said:
There are many bi-bi schools that have jearned the benefits of providing spoken language to deaf students. Maryland School for the Deaf is a good example. They have a CI program that uses spoken language from 50-90% of the classroom time. It doesn't mean that it isn't a bi-bi school. I have also heard about The Learning Center in Mass having a great bi-bi program that is still appropriate for CI users. Also, KDES and MSSD have a CI program. They are certainly considered bi-bi. Services for KDES and MSSD Students with Cochlear Implants
Just because my school isn't doing it yet, doesn't mean it shouldn't.
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What you are asking your school to do is change the methodology of their program. You have no legal right to do that. Your daughter has a right to accommodation. You do not have the right to dictate methododolgy. The whole philosophy of bi-bi is founded on keeping 2 languages separate.

Any bi-bi program is appropriate for CI users. What is not appropriate for a bi-bi classroom is bringing AVT into a classroom that is taught using ASL. Having a CI is not a disability. Therefore, you cannot walk into a program designed to be bi-bi and for deaf children and demand that your child be given oral instruction because she has a CI. The accomodation for her being deaf has already been made. That is the disability that qualifies her for accommodation. If you don't want her in a classroom that uses sign as the language of instruction, then, quite simply, don't put her in one. Put her in a program that uses speech as the language of instruction.

And self contained CI programs within a deaf school are the same as a self contained program for deaf students in a mainstream school. They function differently than the rest of the school functions. And those self contained programs are created so that those students whose parent want a different methodology than the school's primary methodology have a separate classroom in which to accomplish that.
 
jillio said:
What you are asking your school to do is change the methodology of their program. You have no legal right to do that. Your daughter has a right to accommodation. You do not have the right to dictate methododolgy. The whole philosophy of bi-bi is founded on keeping 2 languages separate.

Any bi-bi program is appropriate for CI users. What is not appropriate for a bi-bi classroom is bringing AVT into a classroom that is taught using ASL. Having a CI is not a disability. Therefore, you cannot walk into a program designed to be bi-bi and for deaf children and demand that your child be given oral instruction because she has a CI. The accomodation for her being deaf has already been made. That is the disability that qualifies her for accommodation. If you don't want her in a classroom that uses sign as the language of instruction, then, quite simply, don't put her in one. Put her in a program that uses speech as the language of instruction.

And self contained CI programs within a deaf school are the same as a self contained program for deaf students in a mainstream school. They function differently than the rest of the school functions. And those self contained programs are created so that those students whose parent want a different methodology than the school's primary methodology have a separate classroom in which to accomplish that.
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Stop attacking me and my choices. This thread is NOT about my family. I will contact a moderator if it continues.
 
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