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From: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Stu Turk)
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Subject: Re: Parable Upload Experiment
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Date: 15 Mar 91 04:49:24 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 JW>  Stu, you said you went o mainstreaming and it was not to teach
 JW>  deaf kids only hearing skills? Interesting because you then tell
 JW>  about the focus on lipreading and such. All of that is geared to
 JW>  make the deaf child more presentable to hearies. Nothing wrong

Er, actually, this was 40some years ago and at that time
professional educators couldn't care less about how presentable the
deaf kids turned out.  The school I was in had a special class for
*hard of hearing* kids, who were given lipreading and speech
training.  *Deaf* kids were sent to another school and were taught
sign language but (from what I've been told) no lipreading or
speech training.  I belive this has been changed now, or at least I
sure hope so.  The lipreading training came in handy for many years
but now my eyesight has gotten so bad that I can't see well enough
to lipread.  It would have been nice if they had taught both
lipreading _and_ sign language in addtion to regular (mainstreamed)
school subjects...

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