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Yeah, the school board said they would discuss it during next budget session. Discuss....limit focus and limited funds.

Why are the teachers for the Deaf/Hard-of-hearing and Visually Impaird valued less? One teacher happens to be deaf. Equal Pay for Equal Work

Please quit calling your children hearing impaired! The correct term is Hard of Hearing or Deaf. im⋅paired  –adjective 1. weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge. 2. functioning poorly or inadequately: Consumption of alcohol results in an impaired...

I love math and love to help others learn it or grow to love it. Later never really happens. I think the problem is that it is no longer taught as it was when I was in school. Whenever I tutor I make the person do every step to solve the problem. Teachers today are teaching shortcuts. They...

Dr. Merrill - just because a person in authority says that data proves something works does not make it so. Being the president of Gallaudet doesn’t make him a great leader or right. I do agree with his view on early intervention and that every method of language acquisition is not necessarily...

faire_jour, Have ever seen a child's book for early readers. Most have pictures and the short sentences on the page represents what takes place in the picture. I wasn't asking about teach a child with no language how to read just issues I'm having with some of the language in conjunction with ASL.

Unless the deaf across the country, in a join effort while putting aside their differences, take action then this fight will never end. Whether it is the right to be taught using ASL, have deaf role models in the schools, sit on a jury as all hearing citizens have the right and privilege to do...

I'm hearing and it was of no use to me. Taught whole word. When my older children where in school they assisted each other when it came to phonics. In fact, when my daughter recently had some in her first grade class I got the dictionary out and looked up the words to see what had the long...

Hope you do go back to school to be a teacher and in the mainstream. My grandson's teacher is deaf and has an ADA interpreter. They recently tried to fire both due to budget cuts but the deaf community and our family faught the school board, and won. She has been a god send but the situation...

I appreciate that you use Cued Speech but my grandson will use ASL to aquire all the language he needs. Hopefully, the family and school will sign well enough with him so that this is possible and he becomes fluent in ASL and English. I am not worried about him having auditory memory for...

ScottW, maybe you started off to strong in your classes and the school should have tested you for placement. I am hearing and my English was awful. When I went to college I had to take college-prep courses just so I could get into English 101. You need to talk to your advisor and maybe he/she...

We are using flash card too. What is the sandwich method? And that's to all for advice.

I don't if I would say the situation is grim yet. He is only six. He seems to have a more than normal difficult time remembering words. I say this because my daughter learned much more easily, but she also did not have vision problems. I am giving him books with short sentences and mostly...

I am attempting to teach a deaf child to read. His reading is delayed mostly as a result of vision issues. Currently taught in a public school, he has a teacher who is deaf and uses ASL with him. While I have read a lot of the benefits and ease of teaching English through ASL I have a...

I am hearing and would like to understand something about ASL. I have taken ASL classes. Used signing with my daughter, her son, and all the deaf people she has brought into the family. I have questioned my grandson’s teacher (who is deaf) and her interpreter. I just can’t seem to grasp...

You are probably right. I have always found pride in getting it done myself. Kind of wanted my daughter to learn to fight that way (which she has), but this time I am just sick. You think the big fights are done and this just brings it all home again that very little seems to have been...

I have gone local and national ........ I swear I just don't know what to do. Locally, I have no respect for those I have been in contact with.....nationally, just can't get a response. This is why I get angry. I want help and I am lost and I don't what the barriers for my grandchild.

Not here (where I live)......there is nothing.....all alone on these matters. What I do here is much more limited than when my daughter was younger. More monetary now.

You would think so.....have contacted people I worked with long ago....but we had moved and the interest in this location is not the same as where we were before....and the issues we are struggling with are no where near the same.