Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!207!Ann.Parsons From: Ann.Parsons@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Parsons) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Calling All deafies! Message-ID: <19178@bunker.isc-br.com> Date: 4 May 91 04:33:34 GMT Sender: news@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Ann.Parsons@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/207 - The Recovery Room B, Rochester NY Lines: 41 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 15390 [This is from the Silent Talk Conference] Hi Tim, The problem you site interests me greatly. I have some concrete suggestions. First of all, teachers of the deaf must be certified to teach. Who granted these people certification? Could the Virginia State Department of Education be at fault here? Secondly, I know that interpreters have their own organization which offers certification. Are these people certified by that organization? Now I know that pieces of paper do not a teacher make. But this is probablly the place to start. Secondly, who makes policy for curriculum for the children who are deaf in Virginia Beach? See what they say? Thirdly, if you really think you have a case, take it to EEOC, (Equal Opportunities Commission. Fourthly, you spoke of The college in Washington. Can they intervene, if there has been a miscarriage of educational opportunities for these kids? What about having a speaker or two come to an In-Service for these teachers? Fifth, try honey first, tell them how much they know and how much you appreciate what they've done and then say, "Have you heard about this? This is what's happening in Ny and Pa and at RIT/NTID, etc, etc, etc. This is exciting to me. Could you try this?" If you hit them with vinegar they'll only resist. Well, there's my two cents worth. Anything I can do by getting curriculum guides from BOCES here in NY, or something like that let me know. Ann P. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!207!Ann.Parsons Internet: Ann.Parsons@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org