Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!275!42!Dennis.McClain-Furmanski. From: Dennis.McClain-Furmanski.@f42.n275.z1.fidonet.org (Dennis McClain-Furmanski ) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Calling All deafies! Message-ID: <15708@handicap.news> Date: 16 May 91 15:37:38 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Dennis.McClain-Furmanski.@f42.n275.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:275/42 - Radio Free Earth, Virginia Beach VA Lines: 15 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 15708 [This is from the Silent Talk Conference] Hi Jess. No, you don't need a master's to teach the hearing, although they expect you to be working on one constantly. You're right, there's a discrepency. Even if it were considered as a foreign language compared to english, you don't need a master's to teach bilingual classes. The difference may be because they consider teaching deaf children sign to still be more akin to therapy for handicapped. Is this the law for Virginia, or more places than that? -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!275!42!Dennis.McClain-Furmanski. Internet: Dennis.McClain-Furmanski.@f42.n275.z1.fidonet.org