Co-Enrollment in Toowong, Australia

Author(s):  
Michelle Baker ◽  
Cameron Miller ◽  
Elizabeth Fletcher ◽  
Caroline Gamin ◽  
Breda Carty

In 2001, the first co-enrollment program for deaf children in Australia commenced at Toowong State School in Brisbane, Queensland. The impetus for the program came from the Deaf community and parents advocating for sign language to be used with their deaf children in an environment that provided access to the mainstream. Models of educating deaf children around the world were examined and co-enrollment was chosen as the model of operation to deliver a sign bilingual program that would best meet the needs of deaf students. The journey has been one of incredible learning for deaf and hearing children, their families, school staff, and the Queensland education system. With the changing landscape of deaf education, the impact of early detection and technology (including cochlear implants), and the introduction of a new national curriculum and all it entails, this evolving inner-city school continues to meet the unique needs of its students.

Author(s):  
Marc Marschark ◽  
Harry G. Lang ◽  
John A. Albertini

Over the past decade there has been a significant increase in interest from educators and the general public about deafness, special education, and the development of children with special needs. The education of deaf children in the United States has been seen as a remarkable success story around the world, even while it continues to engender domestic debate. In Educating Deaf Students: From Research to Practice, Marc Marschark, Harry G. Lang, and John A. Albertini set aside the politics, rhetoric, and confusion that often accompany discussions of deaf education. Instead they offer an accessible evaluation of the research literature on the needs and strengths of deaf children and on the methods that have been used-successfully and unsuccessfully-to teach both deaf and hearing children. The authors lay out the common assumptions that have driven deaf education for many years, revealing some of them to be based on questionable methods, conclusions, or interpretations, while others have been lost in the cacophony of alternative educational philosophies. They accompany their historical consideration of how this came to pass with an evaluation of the legal and social conditions surrounding deaf education today. By evaluating what we know, what we do not know, and what we thought we knew about learning among deaf children, the authors provide parents, teachers, and administrators valuable new insights into educating deaf students and others with special needs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Allard ◽  
Deborah Chen Pichler

Abstract Translanguaging is often regarded with great skepticism in the context of Deaf education, as an approach that has already been tried, with disastrous results. Already in the 1960’s educators understood the critical importance of allowing deaf children to exploit their full linguistic repertoire for learning: not only listening, lip-reading and reading/writing, but also sign language, fingerspelling, gesture, and other strategies that render language visually accessible. The resulting teaching philosophy, Total Communication (TC), quickly became the dominant approach employed in Deaf education. Yet despite its progressive stance on multilingualism and multimodality, TC ultimately failed to provide deaf students with full access to a natural language. This chapter contrasts the ineffective multilingual practices under TC with characteristically “Deaf ways” of multilingual meaning-making observed among skilled Deaf signers. Excerpts from life story interviews illustrate the impact these practices have for scaffolding learning among Deaf students newly arrived in Sweden. We conclude that prioritizing visually-oriented practices and supporting both students and teachers to become skilled signers offer the best assurance for successful translanguaging in Deaf education without engendering the problems that caused TC to fail.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Schroeder

In this paper I look at the much-discussed case of disabled parents seeking to conceive (or “selecting for”) disabled children.  I argue that the permissibility of selecting for disability does not depend on the precise impact the disability will have on the child’s wellbeing.  I then turn to an alternative analysis, which argues that the permissibility of selecting for disability depends on the impact that disability will have on the child’s future opportunities.  Nearly all bioethicists who have approached the issue in this way have argued that disabilities like deafness unacceptably constrain a child’s opportunities.  I argue, however, that this conclusion is premature for several reasons.  Most importantly, we don’t have a good way of comparing opportunity sets.  Thus, we can’t conclude that deaf children will grow up to have a constrained set of opportunities relative to hearing children.  I conclude by suggesting that bioethicists and philosophers of disability need to spend more time thinking carefully about the relationship between disability and opportunity.  


Author(s):  
Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts ◽  
Stylianos Terzakis ◽  
Nikolaos Chaniotakis

An inquiry science-based education is commonly followed in a variety of educational contexts around the world and is a key parameter in various national curriculum guidelines. The impetus of this chapter is to record the initial and final reactions of science teachers participating in a series of one-year action research and training program that took place in the University of Crete (UoC) in 2013-2016, identify their perception of the first training course, and explore the impact this data had on the program's redesign for the following training session by the technical board. Teacher reactions and responses regarding what they thought had, and had not, worked well in their classes were taken into account prior to re-designing the training program that the new teachers were going to join the following year. Looking into the general benefits as well as challenges, the authors also examined the overall effect of the UoC IBSE training program to participants as reported by both students and teachers.


1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traute Taeschner ◽  
Antonella Devescovi ◽  
Virginia Volterra

ABSTRACTThe goal of this article is to investigate whether the acquisition of some morpho-syntactic aspects in Italian deaf adolescents is simply delayed with respect to hearing children, or whether it follows significantly different developmental patterns. Twenty-five deaf students (age range: 11–15 years) and a group of 125 hearing controls (age range: 6–16 years) performed four tests, administered in written form, relative to different grammatical aspects: plurals, articles, and clitic pronouns. Results showed three different patterns of development depending on the grammatical aspect considered. Deaf children compared to hearing controls showed normal development in the pluralization task, delayed development in the pronoun task, and a qualitatively different pattern in the article task.


Author(s):  
Cátia de Azevedo Fronza ◽  
Lodenir Becker Karnopp ◽  
Marjon Tammenga-Helmantel

Changes in the past two decades have improved the position of the deaf in Brazil: Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is an officially recognized language, deaf children can go to school, and bilingual education is available to deaf students. However, many deaf children do not attend school, and enrollment rates in high school and higher education are low. Moreover, the language policy views of the Brazilian deaf movement and the Brazilian Ministry of Education do not align. The deaf movement pleads for bilingual deaf schools, whereas the Brazilian government follows an inclusion policy. This chapter presents an overview of the position of the deaf in Brazil and their participation in education, considering national deaf policy and its implications for and impact on deaf education. Teaching practices in bilingual education are discussed, and recommendations and challenges for Brazilian deaf education are considered.


Author(s):  
Justyna Kotowicz

Reading skills of D/deaf students fall behind their hearing peers. The difference in reading skills between D/deaf and hearing children has not decreased for over past three decades. Low level of reading skills in D/deaf students has been associated with their language delay, which is mainly observed in D/deaf children using spoken language that is not fully accessible to “D/deaf individuals” instead of “ppl with hearing impairment”. D/deaf children immersed in sign language since their birth usually do not encounter language problems and they have a potential to become highly-skilled readers. In the present studies we have investigated reading skills of D/deaf students who are native signers of Polish Sign Language. The results have indicated that D/deaf students showed lower level of reading skills than their hearing peers. The present studies call in question Polish education system dedicated to D/deaf students who are native signers. The obtained results suggest that reading classes are probably not adapted to the needs and abilities of highly competent signers.


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Daiane Kipper ◽  
Janete Inês Müller ◽  
Cláudio José de Oliveira

Neste trabalho, estamos interessados em examinar um conjunto de artigos publicados no número noventae um (91) dos Cadernos Cedes, que abordam a aprendizagem de matemática por crianças e adolescentessurdos. Para o exercício analítico, na perspectiva foucaultiana, apoiamo-nos na ferramenta teórico-metodológica doenunciado. Para tal, discutimos o material empírico desta investigação, considerando a metodologia, o referencialteórico e os resultados produzidos pelos autores em seus artigos. O material analisado apresentou aproximaçõesem relação à metodologia das investigações, visto que o desenvolvimento das pesquisas dá-se em ambientes escolares,por meio de atividades com alunos, tendo como foco crianças e adolescentes. Das análises, emergiramenunciados relacionados à aprendizagem matemática por crianças e adolescentes surdos, tais como: as criançassurdas estão atrasadas em relação às ouvintes; a exposição à língua de sinais melhora o desempenho da criançasurda; existem experiências educacionais prévias em contextos informais; a visualidade é fundamental no ensino/aprendizagem da matemática; há uma emergência de criação de sinais nessa área. Nesse sentido, mesmo que aspesquisas sejam desenvolvidas com base em diferentes perspectivas teóricas, são recorrentes os enunciados queposicionam as crianças e jovens surdos como ‘atrasados’ em relação aos ouvintes de mesma faixa etária, e issopor não atenderem a um padrão cultural pré-determinado, sobretudo pela Matemática Escolar da ModernidadePalavras-chave: Educação de surdos. Cadernos Cedes. Matemática. DEAF STUDENTS AND MATHEMATICS LEARNING: statements found in Cadernos CedesAbstract: In this paper, we are interested in examining a group of papers published in Cadernos Cedes numberninety-one (91), which addresses mathematics learning by deaf children and adolescents. For such analytical exercise,grounded on the Foucauldian perspective, we have been supported by the theoretical-methodological tool ofenunciation. We have discussed the empirical material of this investigation by considering the methodology, theoreticalreferences and results produced by the authors in their papers. The analyzed material showed approximations interms of methodology, since the researches were carried out in school settings by means of activities with students,with a focus on children and adolescents. From the analyses, some enunciations related to mathematics learning bydeaf children and adolescents have emerged, such as the following: deaf children lag behind their hearing peers; exposureto sign language improves deaf children’s performance; there are previous educational experiences in informalcontexts; visualization is fundamental in mathematics teaching/learning; there has been an increase in signs inthis area. In this sense, even though the researches were based on different theoretical perspectives, enunciationspositioning deaf children and adolescents as ‘delayed’ in comparison with same-age hearing peers are recurrent,as deaf students do not fit the cultural standard that has been predetermined by School Mathematics in ModernityKeywords: Deaf education. Cadernos Cedes. Mathematics. EL APRENDIZAJE MATEMÁTICO DE SORDOS: enunciados que aparecen en los Cadernos CedesResumen: En este trabajo, estamos interesados en examinar un conjunto de artículos publicados en el númeronoventa y uno (91) de los Cadernos Cedes, que tratan del aprendizaje de matemáticas por niños y adolescentes sordos.Para el ejercicio analítico, en la perspectiva foucaultiana, nos apoyamos en la herramienta teórico metodológicadel enunciado. Para eso, discutimos el material empírico de esta investigación, considerando la metodología,el referencial teórico y los resultados producidos por los autores en sus artículos. El material analizado presentóaproximaciones en relación a la metodología de las investigaciones, ya que el desarrollo de las pesquisas ocurreen ambientes escolares, a través de actividades con alumnos, teniendo como enfoque niños y adolescentes. De losanálisis surgieron enunciados relacionados al aprendizaje matemático por niños y adolescentes sordos, tales como:los niños sordos están retrasados en relación a los oyentes; la exposición a la lengua de señas aumenta el desempeñodel niño sordo; hay un retraso de los estudiantes sordos en matemáticas; existen experiencias educacionalesprevias en contexto informales; la visualidad es fundamental en la enseñanza/aprendizaje de la matemática; hayuna emergencia de creación de señas en esa área. En ese sentido, aunque las pesquisas sean desarrolladas conbase en distintas perspectivas teóricas, son recurrentes los enunciados que posicionan los niños y jóvenes sordoscomo ‘retrasados’ en relación a los oyentes de misma franja etaria; y eso por no hacer parte de un patrón culturalpredeterminado principalmente por la Matemática Escolar de la Modernidad.Palabras clave: Educación de sordos. Cadernos Cedes. Matemáticas.


2021 ◽  
Vol 937 (2) ◽  
pp. 022017
Author(s):  
N Ryzhkin ◽  
A Ivanova ◽  
Y Savchenko ◽  
R Polin ◽  
I Korobov

Abstract This article discusses the pathological changes of the hearing aid in connection with the deterioration of the environmental situation around the world, presents the psychophysical features that deal with the struggle of children with hearing impairment (hard of hearing and deaf). The method of physical education in the course of classes in the wrestling section for the adaptation and harmonious physical development of hard-of-hearing children is proposed and investigated. In our opinion, exercises in wrestling contribute to the development of a number of many valuable physical and psychological qualities that are necessary for a child with hearing impairment. The hypothesis of the study is based on the assumption that the inclusion of special developed methods for wrestling will allow to achieve significant results in a short time in children with hearing impairment. The use of wrestling exercises allows you to maximize the development of the functions of these analyzers for deaf children to more effectively participate in the compensation of lost qualities as a result of impaired hearing aid.


Author(s):  
Iva Hrastinski

This chapter provides an overview of deaf education in Croatia, focusing on the current educational context and communication options for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. After a brief overview of the history of deaf education in the country, which dates back to the 1830s, the author provides essential demographic information and educational placement options for these students. Related challenges are covered, specifically the lack of evidence-based policy regarding teaching methodology. The Deaf community and Deaf culture in Croatia are discussed. Research studies outlining the language and literacy problems of deaf students in Croatia, as well as the socioemotional issues of deaf children, are presented.


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