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Oral preschool for deaf children wants to grow - News
The Luke Lee Listening, Language, and Learning Lab is sharing the gift of oral communication to hearing impaired children from across the state.
This preschool for deaf children is the only one in West Virginia that offers a completely oral education, as opposed to an only sign language curriculum.
Cherese Lee is a mother of twin boys, one of which is deaf. Originally from West Virginia, Lee and her husband wanted more than anything to have their hearing impaired son Luke learn to speak, but there was not a program that offered oral communication to deaf children. Lee immediately went to the Board of Education to argue her case for her need of an oral communicating preschool for her son and other children.
"I knew there were other families in the same situation who wanted their children to have the opportunity to become oral," Lee said. "The opportunity for a child to speak is invaluable."
After presenting research that shows funding for a school to make children oral would cost less in the long run by eliminating the cost for interpreters, the program received a three-year grant from the state and they have used that money in the three years of operation. Lee continued to lobby for permanent state funding, and soon after received the approval for steady funds.
"Everyone was excited about it," Lee said West Virginia really needed something like this."
"It's a fairly normal preschool classroom with group activities, art, math, and cooking; everything we do is to promote language," program director, Jodi Cottrell, said
According to an article written by the Public Broadcasting System, "Deaf children who start with sign language must learn English as a second language. For this reason, deaf children should be taught using oral education methods."
The program has children from Cabell, Putnam, Logan, Raleigh, and Boone Counties. The high success rate of the preschool should generate interest for other programs to start throughout the state.
"Our success is to make sure every child is an oral communicator and attend a mainstream kindergarten," Cottrell said. "We want to consider ourselves the pilot program for the state and hope that others will start up."
There are 6 children in the class this fall, ranging from 2 to 6 years old. They all have some level of hearing loss, but are learning to speak. Cottrell said they are all on different levels of communication, but are all oral in some way.
Speech and language pathologists work with the children through speech therapy. Graduate students are also involved with the program and all receive a chance to work with the children and gain clinical hours.
The Luke Lee Listening, Language, and Learning Lab is sharing the gift of oral communication to hearing impaired children from across the state.
This preschool for deaf children is the only one in West Virginia that offers a completely oral education, as opposed to an only sign language curriculum.
Cherese Lee is a mother of twin boys, one of which is deaf. Originally from West Virginia, Lee and her husband wanted more than anything to have their hearing impaired son Luke learn to speak, but there was not a program that offered oral communication to deaf children. Lee immediately went to the Board of Education to argue her case for her need of an oral communicating preschool for her son and other children.
"I knew there were other families in the same situation who wanted their children to have the opportunity to become oral," Lee said. "The opportunity for a child to speak is invaluable."
After presenting research that shows funding for a school to make children oral would cost less in the long run by eliminating the cost for interpreters, the program received a three-year grant from the state and they have used that money in the three years of operation. Lee continued to lobby for permanent state funding, and soon after received the approval for steady funds.
"Everyone was excited about it," Lee said West Virginia really needed something like this."
"It's a fairly normal preschool classroom with group activities, art, math, and cooking; everything we do is to promote language," program director, Jodi Cottrell, said
According to an article written by the Public Broadcasting System, "Deaf children who start with sign language must learn English as a second language. For this reason, deaf children should be taught using oral education methods."
The program has children from Cabell, Putnam, Logan, Raleigh, and Boone Counties. The high success rate of the preschool should generate interest for other programs to start throughout the state.
"Our success is to make sure every child is an oral communicator and attend a mainstream kindergarten," Cottrell said. "We want to consider ourselves the pilot program for the state and hope that others will start up."
There are 6 children in the class this fall, ranging from 2 to 6 years old. They all have some level of hearing loss, but are learning to speak. Cottrell said they are all on different levels of communication, but are all oral in some way.
Speech and language pathologists work with the children through speech therapy. Graduate students are also involved with the program and all receive a chance to work with the children and gain clinical hours.
This hearing mother like every AGB and Audists never stop at trying to get deaf children to have oral training to speak if not lipreading. When will it stop on abusing deaf children being pressure into learning to speak if they don't want to? His mother is forcing him to speak whether he like it or not. I think it is disgusting and it is epic fail. :thumbd:
lol