I was doing some research on this site: SchoolMatters - Home
A lot of the Deaf Schools have a very high economicly disadvantaged rate
Before I get accused of bashing a certain socioeconomic class, it IS a fact that kids who fall below the poverty line, do tend not to acheive academicly. That has been borne out with countless research. There wasn't info on all the deaf schools listed.....
Atlanta Area School for the Deaf has a 100% rate of ecnomicly disadvantaged students, as does Georgia and Indiana School for the Deaf (which is amazing considering it's a good deaf school)
Lousiniana School for the deaf has 87.4%, Arkansas has a high rate in the high school (92.7%) ..a bit lower in the elementary (79.6%) New Mexico School for the Deaf has 97.4%,
Gov Baxter and Oklahoma both have 67%, Kentucky has 52.3% and Idaho SDB has 56.7%
The lowest rate of ED population that I found was NY SSD at 40.2% and Delaware School for the Deaf at 44.3%
Those are really high numbers! I do think that part of the "oral sucesses" has to do with socioecnomic status. Look at the sites for Sunshine Cottage and Atlanta Speech School.....They specificly mention that their graduates go to public AND private schools....there's not a lot of poor people who can afford private schools. Not to mention there prolly aren't a lot of poor people who can afford to move near a good oral school or have really good health insurance or can fight for an oral placement.
And wouldn't it be SO ironic if it turned out that the poor dhh kids who ended up at deaf school got a better education then mainstream oral kids?
A lot of the Deaf Schools have a very high economicly disadvantaged rate
Before I get accused of bashing a certain socioeconomic class, it IS a fact that kids who fall below the poverty line, do tend not to acheive academicly. That has been borne out with countless research. There wasn't info on all the deaf schools listed.....
Atlanta Area School for the Deaf has a 100% rate of ecnomicly disadvantaged students, as does Georgia and Indiana School for the Deaf (which is amazing considering it's a good deaf school)
Lousiniana School for the deaf has 87.4%, Arkansas has a high rate in the high school (92.7%) ..a bit lower in the elementary (79.6%) New Mexico School for the Deaf has 97.4%,
Gov Baxter and Oklahoma both have 67%, Kentucky has 52.3% and Idaho SDB has 56.7%
The lowest rate of ED population that I found was NY SSD at 40.2% and Delaware School for the Deaf at 44.3%
Those are really high numbers! I do think that part of the "oral sucesses" has to do with socioecnomic status. Look at the sites for Sunshine Cottage and Atlanta Speech School.....They specificly mention that their graduates go to public AND private schools....there's not a lot of poor people who can afford private schools. Not to mention there prolly aren't a lot of poor people who can afford to move near a good oral school or have really good health insurance or can fight for an oral placement.
And wouldn't it be SO ironic if it turned out that the poor dhh kids who ended up at deaf school got a better education then mainstream oral kids?