A Preliminary Study of Deaf Educational Policy.

Abstract Historically, the education of the deaf has not been viewed as successful. Deaf students graduating from high school read at the third or fourth grade level. The oral method, which had been the traditional method of instruction in deaf education, gave way to the Total Communication approach during the 1970s. This approach utilized a simultaneous oral and manual component. However, neither method has produced the desired results and deaf children still lag behind the academic performance of their hearing peers. A bilingual/bicultural approach, within a Vygotskian framework, has been suggested to improve the educational performance of deaf students. This study investigated the educational policy of the deaf and how it was interpreted at a site within the Desert View County Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program. The site was a regular education campus, Joshua Elementary School, which was part of the Blossom Hill School District. Results of the study indicated that there was a breakdown in translation of ...

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