#deaf schools

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Today we celebrate… Deaf schools!

🎉🥳 Hooray for Deaf schools! 🥳🎉

[deafaq]

helllo ^_^!! very good blog you have , very glad I found it!!

I was wondering what your thoughts are on Deaf Schools? like schools for the Deaf (is that right term?)

also was wondering if you know any blogs or such thatll do beta reading/sensitivity reading for writings of d/Deaf characters :3?

have a good day!!!!

Hello,

Deaf schools can be a complicated topic. They are a very important place for sharing Deaf culture and sign languages, but have also been places of oppression and bad treatment of deaf people.

These days, whether school is good or bad depends on the principal and the program school has. I have visited around 6 or 7 Deaf schools in my life and their quality varied wildly. Some were amazing places for learning and great options for deaf students, some I would shut down immediately for horrible education methods. And some were just average.

These days, most deaf/hoh kids end up in mainstream schools, which has its advantages and disadvantages too. Deaf schools are in decline by numbers and most students there now have additional disabilities or other difficulties (as in, they are from immigrant families, etc).

Of course, this applies to primary and secondary education, not colleges/universities. Deaf universities are another topic entirely.

I am sorry, I do not have any links to such blogs. Try search engines? And keep in mind that sensitivity reading is usually paid, as its often time consuming activity and disabled people should be paid for their labour.

Mod T

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Japan: Meisei Gakuen School for the Deaf

At Meisei Gakuen School for the Deaf, the only private bilingual deaf education program in Japan, Jeff, and Joel are blown away at the disciplined and deaf-c...

This is the only private bilingual School for the Deaf in Japan. Japan has both public and private schools for disabled children. The issue lies that those who have lower income are unable to attend schools like these. As Jeff says in the video there are three important things for children to thrive in their education: support from parents/family, the right school environment, and the right peers. This is important for any student, but most of all for those who are least supported in society.  The other important aspect of this video is the advantage of teaching children at a young age another language. Sign language should be available to young children.

[deaflepuff]

Please sign this petition to stop the closer of Deaf Schools in Ontario! We only have 7 Deaf Schools in Canada. They are planning to close 3/4 Deaf School in Ontario! We want to keep those school open!!

[deafaq]

Are schools for deaf people a common thing? Have any of you been to one? Or have you been to public school, and if so, how did the school accommodate your needs/ how did you adapt?

Mod T:

That really depends on what country are you asking about, anon. Every country in the world has its own system for education of deaf people. 

In general, schools for deaf have a long tradition. First (free) school for deaf was founded in Paris, France, by the Abbé de l'Épée in 1760. In 18th and 19th century lot of similar schools were founded in America and Europe.

Nowadays, there’s a leaning towards inclusion, so deaf childen often study at mainstream schools and not at special schools for deaf, although those schools still exist. However, as I said, depends on the country. 

I have studied at mainstream school, but I have visited several schools for deaf in my own country. (Czech republic )

As for adapting my needs... Well, again, that really depends. Especially on your hearing level and how you communicate. I communicate orally, so I used a FM system and teachers didn’t give me tests that required listening and provided me with notes from their lessons. Still, the school sucked, especially because my classmates treated me like shit and I felt really isolated.

If you want more stories about deaf people in mainstream schools, I can reccomend the book Alone in the mainstream: A Deaf woman remembers public school 

What do other mods and our followers think?

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Deaf institute children explain their interpretation of the national anthem

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Three-Year Anniversary!!

Today is exactly three years since I started writing this blog! 

Although, theoretically the blog started out as only a Facebook page, I still count this date as the start of it all. By now we're also on Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest with a total number of almost 2000 readers, where Twitter has the vast majority with over 74% of the readers. And for more than a year (one year and 3 month to be more exact) together with Cate, this blog has now two fixed writers, and hopefully more to come!

So, I was trying to find a nice birthday song in sign language. However, way more difficult than I thought! There are some who interpreted the song "Happy Birthday to you", but I wanted a bit 'more' song. So I was looking for Stevie Wonder's birthday song, also not many interpreteations, or maybe a video with happy birthday greetings in different sign languages, but alas, no such thing.

However, I did find one interpretation for Stevie Wonder's happy birthday song, from a guy that went to Gallaudet and has a 75% hearing loss in both ears. 

And another (short) video from someone forming the letters "happy birthday to you" with his hands, but not using the fingerspelling alphabet (at least not one I can think of). He himself calls it "handspeak". Not sure what the goal of the video was, or if it was meant for someone in particular, but I thought it was funny.

Enjoy the videos!!

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Schools for the deaf provide a valuable educational setting for many deaf students. Yet many of the schools are failing and in danger of closing. Sustaining a viable and high quality educational environment requires that schools for the deaf change, diversify and expand as institutions -- staying the same is not an option. Transformational leadership is necessary for schools for the deaf to remain viable center schools and become educational resource centers.

Joseph E. Fischgrund, Special Schools for Deaf Students: Viability Leadership. From the new site, Raising and Educating Deaf Children.