Lisa Huynh
SL 001: 91936
Professor Maciel
November 2, 2014
Proper Education for the Deaf: Mainstream versus Inclusion
As an adolescent, you focused on parents, family members, friends, or whomever for guidance on everything, especially the way of communication. For Deaf children, they aren’t able to use the skill of speech, but instead use American Sign Language. By combining a specific hand shape, palm orientation, one makes a sign
(Baker and Padden, 5). In a recent study by the World federation of the Deaf (WFD), it revealed the enrollment rate and literary achievement of the deaf children is far below the average for the population. By researching the options proved, parents must decide what would be considered a proper education for their…show more content… Having an education is a primary way in advancing for independence, appropriate employment, economic power, and self empowerment. Deaf children have the right to expect that their needs and human linguistic and education rights are respected and supported by educational authorities, in full compliance with national curricula (“Educational Rights”, 1). Without a solid educational and language base, it will be difficult to succeed in today’s communities and marketplaces.
Deaf students learn best through visual modalities. In a study by Sigal Eden and Sara Ingbar, they examined the effienecy of an early intervention program to improve children’s sequential time perception through virtual versus pictorial training in arranging episodes of temporal scripts. Both groups demonstrated significant improvement in sequential time achievement following but the improvement was much more significant in the visual than pictional (Eden and Ingbar,…show more content… An inclusion environment allows the student to be with other students that don’t have similar disabilities, for example a severely disabled student may only need to know the name of their own state and of the country instruction and also may receive one-on-one by a paraprofessional in order to accomplish the assessment goal (Pereles,1). If a public school cannot properly educate the student in an inclusive environment, the district must pay for the student to be educated elsewhere. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, all families are also entitled to an Individual Service Plan to help plan their child’s education (Leppart, 1).
Therefore, parents must thoroughly research the educational programs for their Deaf child. A deaf child should be enrolled in programs that meet their needs, educationally, socially, and emotionally. Addition to finding schools, counseling can aid a deaf student through the frustrations and other
