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- From: Sam.Calvert@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Sam Calvert)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: residential schools
- Message-ID: <26376@handicap.news>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 22:20:29 GMT
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- [This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
-
- Carol
-
- WOW I am sorry about your misfortune in residential schools. I have
- gone to schools for Learning Disabled people and I got a great
- education. I dont know if that is because LD schools tend to be
- private or what. But I too, have noticed since I have worked as a
- volunteer at Perkins School For the Blind in the Deaf-Blind
- Departement and from the Deaf-Blind department I can see why the
- students there are so isolated. It is because high functioning
- Deaf-blind students are being mainstreamed rather tan Perkins.
- There are only about three Smart Deaf-Blind students ans they are
- at different ages. THe res rest of the students are deaf-blind and
- mentallly retarded or with multihandicaps which makes the smart
- deaf-blind studetns feel isolaed only to soicalize with low
- functoning studetns. but 10 years ago Perkins was better and had
- more high functiong students but now Perkins has become more of a
- real institution for multihandicapped students.
-
- There is one Deaf-Blind Smart 17 year old who I think should be
- placed in a Deaf school instead of Blind school becuse there are
- more serices and Deaf stuents to socialize with and curriculums are
- geared toward the Deaf. As he is. His best friend is 17 year old
- Deaf young man at The American School For The Deaf and I wish they
- would go to ASD together! Perkins becomes tooooo paternalistic
- sometimes.
-
- and very strict about certain things and the 17 year old gets
- punished for stupd things that the dorm staff catch punish him for
- really nothing!
-
- Sam Calvert
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