Showing posts with label Mainstream Schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mainstream Schools. Show all posts
Deaf News: Son James was mercilessly picked on in the playground because he has a hearing impairment at mainstreaming school.
DUNDEE, UK -- The Sunday Post: Chris said teachers did little to tackle the problem when James was subjected to name-calling by other pupils.
Eventually, Chris and wife Samantha were forced to take the step of removing him from the school due to the “lack of understanding from teachers”.
“People are ignorant – that’s not going to change,” said the former striker, who has tried to teach his son how to deal with the name-calling.
He said: “It is wrong for children to tease and bully but it happens through school and as much as we’d like it to, it will probably never be eradicated.
“I prepare James for this. What I couldn’t understand was the lack of understanding from his teachers at his previous school.
“They did not know how to treat him because of his hearing aids.”
Following abuse at the hands of other children, Chris was forced to carefully explain to James that he was happy with him just the way he his.
“You find out who your friends are,” is the difficult advice he gave him.“Kids have to work things out for themselves,” he added.
Since placing James in another school, he has flourished and is now an accomplished hockey player, much to his dad’s delight.
Chris said: “Going to his new school totally transformed him as a person.
“He was depressed and lacked self-belief and it was because of the common sense and logical understanding of the teachers at his new school that he began to build his confidence.”
The now 14-year-old’s early life was beset by problems.
James was born prematurely at 28 weeks in September
2001 at The Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow, weighing just 3lb.
He was so tiny, Chris could hold him in the palm of his hand.
After weeks of specialist care, he was eventually allowed to go home.
However, Samantha rushed James to the former Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow 10 days later when he fell seriously ill with a respiratory virus.
He was choking and having terrifying episodes where he would stop breathing.
She took him to hospital but while in the waiting room he stopped breathing again.
He was rushed to a side room where doctors resuscitated him. Medics said he could have died if he hadn’t got there when he did.
Chris, 43, said: “My wife had this feeling and she turned round and James was going blue.
“They rushed him into the hospital and he had gone. They got him back.
“He was in a long time. They resuscitated him. He was a tiny baby. It was the most worrying thing that has ever happened.
“Had we lived any further away we might not have got there in time. Another minute and he might not have been here. We were told that.”
Doctors said James was suffering from RSV – a common virus with cold-like symptoms.
Healthy children tend to shrug it off, but it can be life-threatening for premature babies.
The star was in Spain at the time preparing for a crucial UEFA Cup tie with Valencia when Samantha called to say James was fighting for his life.
He immediately tried to get a flight home, but couldn’t.
In the end he chose not to go to the match but instead stayed at the hotel where Samantha could call to give him updates.
He flew home early next day and went to the intensive care ward where he and Samantha kept a bedside vigil.
The footballer said it was the most worrying time of his life.
“James was on life support. It was touch-and-go,” he revealed.
“You hope, you sit and pray and think about things.
SOURCE
Related:
Living In Between The Deaf And Hearing Worlds
Dropout Rate Among Mainstream Deaf Students
Deaf Awareness 'Voiceless' Short Film
Deaf Girl's Bullying In Mainstream School
Deaf Student Bullied At Alexander Graham Bell School
Mainstream School Is Failing Deaf Students
Petition | Stop Moving Deaf To Mainstream Schools
DUNDEE, UK -- The Sunday Post: Chris said teachers did little to tackle the problem when James was subjected to name-calling by other pupils.Eventually, Chris and wife Samantha were forced to take the step of removing him from the school due to the “lack of understanding from teachers”.
“People are ignorant – that’s not going to change,” said the former striker, who has tried to teach his son how to deal with the name-calling.
He said: “It is wrong for children to tease and bully but it happens through school and as much as we’d like it to, it will probably never be eradicated.
“I prepare James for this. What I couldn’t understand was the lack of understanding from his teachers at his previous school.
“They did not know how to treat him because of his hearing aids.”
Following abuse at the hands of other children, Chris was forced to carefully explain to James that he was happy with him just the way he his.
“You find out who your friends are,” is the difficult advice he gave him.“Kids have to work things out for themselves,” he added.
Since placing James in another school, he has flourished and is now an accomplished hockey player, much to his dad’s delight.
Chris said: “Going to his new school totally transformed him as a person.
“He was depressed and lacked self-belief and it was because of the common sense and logical understanding of the teachers at his new school that he began to build his confidence.”
The now 14-year-old’s early life was beset by problems.
James was born prematurely at 28 weeks in September
2001 at The Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow, weighing just 3lb.
He was so tiny, Chris could hold him in the palm of his hand.
After weeks of specialist care, he was eventually allowed to go home.
However, Samantha rushed James to the former Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow 10 days later when he fell seriously ill with a respiratory virus.
He was choking and having terrifying episodes where he would stop breathing.
She took him to hospital but while in the waiting room he stopped breathing again.
He was rushed to a side room where doctors resuscitated him. Medics said he could have died if he hadn’t got there when he did.
Chris, 43, said: “My wife had this feeling and she turned round and James was going blue.
“They rushed him into the hospital and he had gone. They got him back.
“He was in a long time. They resuscitated him. He was a tiny baby. It was the most worrying thing that has ever happened.
“Had we lived any further away we might not have got there in time. Another minute and he might not have been here. We were told that.”
Doctors said James was suffering from RSV – a common virus with cold-like symptoms.
Healthy children tend to shrug it off, but it can be life-threatening for premature babies.
The star was in Spain at the time preparing for a crucial UEFA Cup tie with Valencia when Samantha called to say James was fighting for his life.
He immediately tried to get a flight home, but couldn’t.
In the end he chose not to go to the match but instead stayed at the hotel where Samantha could call to give him updates.
He flew home early next day and went to the intensive care ward where he and Samantha kept a bedside vigil.
The footballer said it was the most worrying time of his life.
“James was on life support. It was touch-and-go,” he revealed.
“You hope, you sit and pray and think about things.
SOURCE
Related:
Living In Between The Deaf And Hearing Worlds
Dropout Rate Among Mainstream Deaf Students
Deaf Awareness 'Voiceless' Short Film
Deaf Girl's Bullying In Mainstream School
Deaf Student Bullied At Alexander Graham Bell School
Mainstream School Is Failing Deaf Students
Petition | Stop Moving Deaf To Mainstream Schools
Deaf News: Helsinki Design School fined in Deaf discrimination case.
HELSINKI -- The Helsinki District Court has slapped a fine 1,200-euro on the head of a private Helsinki Design School for retracting its offer of a place to a Deaf applicant. The court found the institution and its principal guilty of discrimination but the defendants say they are considering an appeal.
Back in 2014, privately-run Helsinki Design School turned away design student Oskari Salomaa, citing insufficient resources to provide interpreter services. The institution had previously accepted Salomaa for the year-long program, but retracted the place when it learned of his special needs.
On Monday, the Helsinki District Court ruled that the school had violated non-discrimination laws in refusing Salomaa the opportunity to study.
The court imposed a fine of 1,280 euros on the school CEO and also called on the institution and its chief executive to compensate Salomaa to the tune of 8,000 euros. The defendants are also required to settle Salomaa’s legal expenses, which amounted to nearly 8,500 euros.
Salomaa said that he was pleased with the outcome.
"This means that sign language users have a right to be part of Finnish society. I won’t appeal the decision," Salomaa said after the ruling.
Lawyer for the defendants, Jaana Juutilainen said that she was disappointed with the court’s decision.
"It’s very likely that we will see fit to take the case to the Court of Appeal," Juutilainen remarked. Read The Full Story
HELSINKI -- The Helsinki District Court has slapped a fine 1,200-euro on the head of a private Helsinki Design School for retracting its offer of a place to a Deaf applicant. The court found the institution and its principal guilty of discrimination but the defendants say they are considering an appeal.Back in 2014, privately-run Helsinki Design School turned away design student Oskari Salomaa, citing insufficient resources to provide interpreter services. The institution had previously accepted Salomaa for the year-long program, but retracted the place when it learned of his special needs.
On Monday, the Helsinki District Court ruled that the school had violated non-discrimination laws in refusing Salomaa the opportunity to study.
The court imposed a fine of 1,280 euros on the school CEO and also called on the institution and its chief executive to compensate Salomaa to the tune of 8,000 euros. The defendants are also required to settle Salomaa’s legal expenses, which amounted to nearly 8,500 euros.
Salomaa said that he was pleased with the outcome.
"This means that sign language users have a right to be part of Finnish society. I won’t appeal the decision," Salomaa said after the ruling.
Lawyer for the defendants, Jaana Juutilainen said that she was disappointed with the court’s decision.
"It’s very likely that we will see fit to take the case to the Court of Appeal," Juutilainen remarked. Read The Full Story
VIDEO: Deaf News: A psychologist is calling for signing to be available as a ‘foreign language’ option for hearing children.
LONDON --
Dr Jim Cromwell said that learning British Sign Language (BSL) would benefit all students’ education and make life easier for Deaf people, bringing ‘extraordinary’ benefits for those without hearing.
In an ‘ideal world’ BSL would form part of the National Curriculum and be a compulsory element in mainstream schools, he added.
“Bilingualism gives a huge advantage in terms of thinking skills,” said Dr Cromwell, a clinical psychologist at Exeter Deaf Academy.
Having a wider population of people with BSL would make life easier those without hearing, he said. More than 900,000 people in the UK are severely or profoundly Deaf, according to the charity, Action on Hearing Loss.
Dr Cromwell also believes that those of the country’s 45,000 Deaf children who are taught in mainstream schools are not receiving the education they deserve.
“There is not the right support for them,” he said.
“They are being helped by teaching assistants with Level 2 BSL – that’s less than an O Level.
“Schools are getting away with that. There is the attitude of ‘they (Deaf children) are not doing well, but they are disabled, aren’t they?’
“Relying on education through spoken (rather than signed) lessons is like trying to learn maths A Level in Russian. Lip reading is 40 per cent guess work.”
Dr Cromwell, who has BSL at Level 4 – equivalent to degree standard – is believed to be the only clinical psychologist on the staff of a UK specialist school.
While a Deaf child ‘can do everything except hear’ many came to the Exeter school with attachment disorder, language delay, and behavioural problems because of a lack of access to BSL.
“They fall behind in primary school and are regarded as ‘problem students’,” he said. “Not all of our students are like that by any means, but we get those.”
Linguistic deprivation was one of the consequences of deafness that often began in the home as 90 per cent of children who were born Deaf had Hearing parents.
“Some (parents) will have never met a Deaf person, have no BSL and struggle to know what to do,” he said.
Their children were then learning BSL from a parent who was also learning the signing language. That might lead to learning deals that could give rise to behavioural problems, said Dr Cromwell.
Further problems might arise at schools without teachers qualified in BSL at a high level.
Part of the problem was that BSL was seen by many as a ‘pidgin’ form of English, instead of a language that was ‘heir to a rich cultural landscape’.
Widespread learning and use of BSL would help address many of those problems leading to an extraordinary increase in the well-being of Deaf children, said Dr Cromwell. Source
LONDON --
Dr Jim Cromwell said that learning British Sign Language (BSL) would benefit all students’ education and make life easier for Deaf people, bringing ‘extraordinary’ benefits for those without hearing.In an ‘ideal world’ BSL would form part of the National Curriculum and be a compulsory element in mainstream schools, he added.
“Bilingualism gives a huge advantage in terms of thinking skills,” said Dr Cromwell, a clinical psychologist at Exeter Deaf Academy.
Having a wider population of people with BSL would make life easier those without hearing, he said. More than 900,000 people in the UK are severely or profoundly Deaf, according to the charity, Action on Hearing Loss.
Dr Cromwell also believes that those of the country’s 45,000 Deaf children who are taught in mainstream schools are not receiving the education they deserve.
“There is not the right support for them,” he said.
“They are being helped by teaching assistants with Level 2 BSL – that’s less than an O Level.
“Schools are getting away with that. There is the attitude of ‘they (Deaf children) are not doing well, but they are disabled, aren’t they?’
“Relying on education through spoken (rather than signed) lessons is like trying to learn maths A Level in Russian. Lip reading is 40 per cent guess work.”
Dr Cromwell, who has BSL at Level 4 – equivalent to degree standard – is believed to be the only clinical psychologist on the staff of a UK specialist school.
While a Deaf child ‘can do everything except hear’ many came to the Exeter school with attachment disorder, language delay, and behavioural problems because of a lack of access to BSL.
“They fall behind in primary school and are regarded as ‘problem students’,” he said. “Not all of our students are like that by any means, but we get those.”
Linguistic deprivation was one of the consequences of deafness that often began in the home as 90 per cent of children who were born Deaf had Hearing parents.
“Some (parents) will have never met a Deaf person, have no BSL and struggle to know what to do,” he said.
Their children were then learning BSL from a parent who was also learning the signing language. That might lead to learning deals that could give rise to behavioural problems, said Dr Cromwell.
Further problems might arise at schools without teachers qualified in BSL at a high level.
Part of the problem was that BSL was seen by many as a ‘pidgin’ form of English, instead of a language that was ‘heir to a rich cultural landscape’.
Widespread learning and use of BSL would help address many of those problems leading to an extraordinary increase in the well-being of Deaf children, said Dr Cromwell. Source
VIDEO [ASL/CC] - Facundo Element: The D: Detroit Deaf Education Film.
Facundo Element: An organization that actively works to remove oppression and misrepresentation of D-E-A-F people through the means of mass media and non-violent activism.
The project film documentary of a narrative of Deaf students and parents' experience with Detroit Public Schools. Download transcription here: www.facundoelement.com/thed/transcript.pdf
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Facundo Element: An organization that actively works to remove oppression and misrepresentation of D-E-A-F people through the means of mass media and non-violent activism.The project film documentary of a narrative of Deaf students and parents' experience with Detroit Public Schools. Download transcription here: www.facundoelement.com/thed/transcript.pdf
Follow Facundo Element:
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Signed Version - Exposed Truth Behind the Science in American Sign Language.
Pam Moers and Elsie Stecker challenge the ongoing myth that Deaf people read at the 4th grade level. Special thanks to Becky Johnson for providing audio support.
References:
4th Grade Level:
http://www.redeafined.com/2012/04/debunking-fourth-grade-reading-level.html
http://www.handsandvoices.org/articles/research/v9-2_marschark.htm
Hearing kids who struggle with 3/4 grade reading:
http://www.aecf.org/%7E/media/Pubs/Topics/Education/Other/EarlyWarningConfirmed/EarlyWarningConfirmed.pdf
http://www.imls.gov/about/campaign_for_grade_level_reading.aspx
Reading to learn:
http://www.colorincolorado.org/webcasts/reading/
Conversation controlling:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2346109
Tribe in Australia:
http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/bls/article/view/2391/2350
http://prijipati.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1303
Related Post:
Deaf People May Have Trouble Reading
Structural Violence: Deaf Education Box
Early Language Acquisition of Deaf Babies & Toddlers
Educate Hearing Parents With Deaf Children
Pam Moers and Elsie Stecker challenge the ongoing myth that Deaf people read at the 4th grade level. Special thanks to Becky Johnson for providing audio support.
References:
4th Grade Level:
http://www.redeafined.com/2012/04/debunking-fourth-grade-reading-level.html
http://www.handsandvoices.org/articles/research/v9-2_marschark.htm
Hearing kids who struggle with 3/4 grade reading:
http://www.aecf.org/%7E/media/Pubs/Topics/Education/Other/EarlyWarningConfirmed/EarlyWarningConfirmed.pdf
http://www.imls.gov/about/campaign_for_grade_level_reading.aspx
Reading to learn:
http://www.colorincolorado.org/webcasts/reading/
Conversation controlling:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2346109
Tribe in Australia:
http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/bls/article/view/2391/2350
http://prijipati.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1303
Related Post:
Deaf People May Have Trouble Reading
Structural Violence: Deaf Education Box
Early Language Acquisition of Deaf Babies & Toddlers
Educate Hearing Parents With Deaf Children
VIDEO [ASL] - A documentary about dropout rate among mainstream Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.
Students with hearing loss attending general education classrooms have been reported to experience difficulties in social skills and relationships. This 5-year longitudinal study examined the social skills and problem behaviors of students who were Deaf or Hard of Hearing, and who attended general education classrooms. Data were obtained from classroom teachers and students themselves.
The mean Social Skills and Problem Behavior scores (Social Skills Rating Scales; Gresham & Elliott, 1990) were within the average range and normally distributed each year. The average change over 5 years in social skills and problem behavior was not significant.
The most consistent predictors of social outcomes were the students" classroom communication participation and participation in extracurricular activities. Implications for placement, intervention, and further research are discussed. Sources: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Exceptional-Children/260582218.html
Benefits to students with disabilities: Mainstreaming Schools from wikipedia.org
Familiar Stories of the Mainstream schools:
Alone in a Hearing World shows true to life scenarios of a young Deaf boy growing up in a hearing world. With family members who can't communicate and continuous misunderstandings by his teachers and coaches, he is forced to live in a world of isolation. However, when he pleas for his Mothers understanding and falls short, he ends up in the only place he seems to find acceptance, as seen on youtube: Alone In A Hearing World
"Alone In The Mainstream" (best seller book for the teachers) - A Deaf women remembers public schools - Gina A. Oliva in which a book is a part of education for hearing parents to understanding with Deaf children in the mainstream schools, as seen on youtube: Alone In The Mainstream
Also and, check this out DrDonGCSUS's vlog with captions: Mainstreaming Is Failing Deaf Students
Students with hearing loss attending general education classrooms have been reported to experience difficulties in social skills and relationships. This 5-year longitudinal study examined the social skills and problem behaviors of students who were Deaf or Hard of Hearing, and who attended general education classrooms. Data were obtained from classroom teachers and students themselves.
The mean Social Skills and Problem Behavior scores (Social Skills Rating Scales; Gresham & Elliott, 1990) were within the average range and normally distributed each year. The average change over 5 years in social skills and problem behavior was not significant.
The most consistent predictors of social outcomes were the students" classroom communication participation and participation in extracurricular activities. Implications for placement, intervention, and further research are discussed. Sources: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Exceptional-Children/260582218.html
Benefits to students with disabilities: Mainstreaming Schools from wikipedia.org
Familiar Stories of the Mainstream schools:
Alone in a Hearing World shows true to life scenarios of a young Deaf boy growing up in a hearing world. With family members who can't communicate and continuous misunderstandings by his teachers and coaches, he is forced to live in a world of isolation. However, when he pleas for his Mothers understanding and falls short, he ends up in the only place he seems to find acceptance, as seen on youtube: Alone In A Hearing World
"Alone In The Mainstream" (best seller book for the teachers) - A Deaf women remembers public schools - Gina A. Oliva in which a book is a part of education for hearing parents to understanding with Deaf children in the mainstream schools, as seen on youtube: Alone In The Mainstream
Also and, check this out DrDonGCSUS's vlog with captions: Mainstreaming Is Failing Deaf Students
VIDEO: Signed - Deaf Awareness 'Voiceless' Short Film.
Communication Access Service - 1 in every 1,000 newborns are Deaf. 10% of those children's families are DEAF as well.
Out of the remaining 90%, only 1/4 of them ever learn to sign. The remaining 3/4? They go throughout their life without ever being able to communicate with their kids. This is the story of a girl whose family is part of that 3/4.
Familiar Stories of the Mainstream Schools:
Alone in a Hearing World' shows true to life scenarios of a young Deaf boy growing up in a hearing world. With family members who can't communicate and continuous misunderstandings by his teachers and coaches, he is forced to live in a world of isolation. However, when he pleas for his Mothers understanding and falls short, he ends up in the only place he seems to find acceptance, as seen on YouTube: Alone In A Hearing World
'Alone In The Mainstream' (best seller book for the teachers) - A Deaf women remembers public schools - Gina A. Oliva in which a book is a part of education for hearing parents to understanding with Deaf children in the mainstream schools, as seen on YouTube: Alone In The Mainstream
Check this out DrDonGCSUS's ASL vlog with captions: Mainstreaming Is Failing Deaf Students
Communication Access Service - 1 in every 1,000 newborns are Deaf. 10% of those children's families are DEAF as well.
Out of the remaining 90%, only 1/4 of them ever learn to sign. The remaining 3/4? They go throughout their life without ever being able to communicate with their kids. This is the story of a girl whose family is part of that 3/4.
Familiar Stories of the Mainstream Schools:
Alone in a Hearing World' shows true to life scenarios of a young Deaf boy growing up in a hearing world. With family members who can't communicate and continuous misunderstandings by his teachers and coaches, he is forced to live in a world of isolation. However, when he pleas for his Mothers understanding and falls short, he ends up in the only place he seems to find acceptance, as seen on YouTube: Alone In A Hearing World
'Alone In The Mainstream' (best seller book for the teachers) - A Deaf women remembers public schools - Gina A. Oliva in which a book is a part of education for hearing parents to understanding with Deaf children in the mainstream schools, as seen on YouTube: Alone In The Mainstream
Check this out DrDonGCSUS's ASL vlog with captions: Mainstreaming Is Failing Deaf Students
