Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!300!14!James.Womack From: James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: ASL vs SEE Message-ID: <18252@bunker.UUCP> Date: 21 Mar 91 05:18:00 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:300/14 - The Emerald Isle, Tucson AZ Lines: 15 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 14088 [This is from the Silent Talk Conference] I wonder if youare aware that many deaf people's SAT scores and the number of deaf people entering colleges declined within 5 years after the SEE, Total Communication, L O V E and other MCE systems hit the educational field? Know why, deaf teachers were eased out the profession in slightly larger numbers and the educational philosophy of deaf programs swung back to oral and English only approaches which have been proven to not work over and over again. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!300!14!James.Womack Internet: James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org