Oregon University Continues As National Deaf-Blind Center

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Western Oregon University learned Thursday it will continue to be home to the National Center on Deaf Blindness. That means Western - along with several partners - will get a 5-year, $10.5 million grant.

It’ll allow the Center to work with states to serve students who are both deaf and blind.

Jay Gense is the center’s director. He says the center at Western Oregon is helping with one of the biggest challenges schools have when students have significant disabilities: transitioning them from isolated programs into standard classrooms.

“So that’s an incredibly positive trend nationwide,” says Gense. “At the same time, it complicates the service delivery - because it means that those kids are in schools that have people who don’t have the expertise.”

Gense says a majority of deaf-blind students across the country now spend at least part of their day in traditional classrooms.

Gense says there are roughly 10,000 deaf-blind students in the US. About 70 of them are in Oregon.
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Inclusion of DB students?!?! Um WHY?!?!? Once you take away the Usher's DB, almost all DB are severely multihandicapped...........Like the type of student where their IEP consists of "so and so will hit a switch to communicate" severe...Those kids need intense life skills classrooms,where they can learn in their own way!Ever seen the description of what blind schools offer as a curriculum for their severe kids? That's the level most non Usher DB are at.
 
BTW, I am sick of inclusion in ALL aspects of sped being brought out as some sort of thing that will magically transform student acheivement......There's very low expectations in an inclusive classroom as well....not to mention that most inclusive teachers are not trained to teach mentally disabled,DHH,blind/low vision etc etc etc............
I understand the thinking behind inclusion but, quite frankly it seems to have been invented by one of those mothers who act like if you even DARE to suggest that her kid (who tried to kill her with a knife) might need a specialized classroom/setting,that you're telling her to Willowbrook (lock the kid in an insistution)her kid
 
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