School For The Deaf Coming To Albuquerque

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School For The Deaf Coming To Albuquerque - Albuquerque News Story - KOAT Albuquerque

A new school for the deaf is coming to the Duke City. The county commission voted this week to lease a county building to the ABQ Sign Language Academy.

The new school will be the only school for the deaf in the Duke City.

Kimberly Silva's son Thomas is deaf and attends an Albuquerque Public School that has a special program that fits his needs. She said sometimes there are disadvantages.

"When you only have 25 or 30 that are deaf or hard of hearing that limits the number of students you can talk with or work with," said Silva.

The school will be more convenient to hearing impaired students who currently have to go to Santa Fe to attend a school for the deaf.

The charter school will be in Downtown Albuquerque. The cost to renovate the building is $500,000. County officials said that $400,000 will come from them and $100,000 will come from the state.

County Commissioner Art De La Cruz said that the county is budgeted for special projects like this.

"We want to make sure we have a safe, healthy building so the county is accepting that responsibility as a landlord fundamentally," said De La Cruz.

According to officials, ABQ Sign Language Academy will pay $30,000 a year to the county. The school will be responsible for its own utilities and operating expenses.

The Academy will take 40 children and will start enrollment in July.
 
(sarcasm) Gee! I thought that the mainstream was some sort of glorious utopia where all dhh kids got their needs met! (/sarcasm)
 
I said that for the lurkers. rockdrummer......the thinking among a lot of parents is that mainstream schools (meaning regular classes regular schools with minimal accomondations not even a formal dhh program) is THE BEST place. But if that's true, then how come there's new Deaf schools opening up all the time? Hopefully this innovation may break the backs of a " one size fits all" mentality.
A public mainstream to the max program is too one size fits all. .....and actually I do think that in order to improve public education, we need a VARIETY of educational approaches. Like the programs would still be adminstered under the ageis of the government......but there'd be all sorts of different kinds of programs....from Montressi style to traditional to seminar to "magnet" programs to vocational.
 
I agree with Deafdyke..mainstreaming tend to follow the one size fits all mentality.
 
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