The only time that AVT discourages lipreading is during auditory only tasks. That is a minority of the time. When language, vocabulary or articulation is being worked on, lipreading is neither encouraged or discouraged. Often AV kids develop excellent lipreading skills during natural interactions.
Which teachers? Where do they work? With what age children? When were the students implanted? What is the modality of the early intervention services the students get? What is the modality of the school they work in?
Why don't you find that out for yourself? Might be good to put an effort in.
She is the one claiming that her friends tell her these things. Her claims do not match my experiences or the research.
Yes, but there will more than likely be follow up studies to confirm the findings.
I suspect your experience is as limited & biased as DD's.
I have worked in a large suburban school district as an itinerant teacher of the deaf (with students with every degree of hearing loss from 2nd grade through 11th), in an inner-city self-contained preschool program with students of all language modalities, in a birth to three setting with families with children with multiple disabilities, in a listening and spoken language program with late elementary to early middle school students, and now in a private listening and spoken language program with preschoolers.
And how much experience do you have with signing students? Especially ASL students?
I have students whose primary language (at home and school) have been ASL including in the mainstream (with interpreters) and in the self-contained classes I have taught. They are, by far, a minority. I would guess, in the mainstream, one out of every 8-10 students uses an interpreter but in a self-contained class it is closer to one in three or four.
Reread the first post, forget the others.
Because people involved in the education of the deaf should/would be interested in this information.
Call any school district. I had an IEP during my years. I'm certain one phone call could have identified the teachers.
You keep asking questions and making comments on stuff you have admitted you know nothing about. And you've said you are 70. Why try to contribute to this at this point?
School districts can't disclose that information.
Say what your mean, mean what you say. We have one deaf school for the entire county, so any child who is deaf or HOH will most likely be going to that school. So my guess is the teachers the child will get will be limited to those hired to teach at the school.
