Including deaf children in mainstream schools
Presented on Thursday 14 September 2006
Content
“…though the current policy of inclusion and normalisation is deeply affecting and even abusive, it is largely based on ignorance and because things have always been done this way. This has led to lack of resources and staff development and has compounded the problem for workers who are actually trying to take heed of the deaf community’s wishes.”
Deaf Toolkit: Best Value Review of Deaf Children
Education, from Users’ Perspective (2004, p8)
DEX Deaf Ex Mainstream Group
How do we empower the deaf child in mainstream education?
Is your school as inclusive as it could be?
This course focussed on the controversial area of educational inclusion for deaf pupils. The course offered valuable deaf awareness strategies as well as insights on inclusion from a deaf perspective. Issues discussed:
- Who is responsible for the education of the deaf child?
- How do deaf pupils access information and participate in class?
- What does it mean to collaborate with the Teacher of the Deaf?
- Class management issues.
- Strategies to promote effective inclusion.
- Inclusion issues from the deaf perspective.
Presenters: Marian Grimes, Research Associate, Moray House School
of Education, University of Edinburgh
Eileen Burns, Accessibility and
Inclusion Project Manager, The National Deaf Children's Society
Debra
Dalton, Deaf Action
Jill Dunlop, Student, University of Edinburgh
Ann Cowgill, Coordinator HI Service, Crosshouse Education Centre
Programme
10.20 Introduction - John Ravenscroft
- 10.30 Strategies to promote effective education inclusion for deaf pupils - Marian Grimes
- 11.30 Can we meet the needs of a deaf child in mainstream? - Eileen Burns
- 1.15 The role of the Teacher of the Deaf: Practical aspects - Anne Cowgill
- 2.15 Teachers of the Deaf: Educational Inclusion from a deaf perspective - Jill Dunlop & Debra Dalton
- 3.15 Summary and course evaluation