Education alternatives

Objectives: Describe different educational settings

and factors that influence whether one setting will be appropriate for a given child.

Define Least Restrictive Environment and discuss what that means in terms of children with severe to profound loss.

Educational services

Residential/Day school

Self-contained classroom

Mainstream Resource room Inclusion Coenrollment

Residential/Day School

Many schools for the Deaf offer residential programs Classes taught in ASL English taught as second language

Bilingual-Bicultural Teachers may also have hearing loss

Day schools No residential program Not restricted to Bi-Bi programs

Self-contained Classroom

Separate classroom designed to address needs of children with hearing loss

Housed in regular education school, so opportunities exist for interaction with typical children

Mainstream Classroom

Inclusion Child placed in regular education classroom

May spend some time in resource room May have support of itinerant teacher

Coenrollment Two teachers work simultaneously

One for children using audition One for children using manual communication

Auditory/Oral Day School

Least Restrictive Environment

IDEA definition of LRE unclear Sacramento City USD v. Holland (1994)

provides four points: Educational benefits of integrated versus

segregated setting Nonacademic benefits (interactions with

typically-developing peers) Effect of student on teacher and peers Cost of supplementary services to support

student in integrated setting

Least Restrictive Environment

LRE doesn’t require BEST academic setting, just APPROPRIATE setting

Springdale School District v. Grace (1982) “The district court, although convinced that the best place for Sherry

is the School for the Deaf, correctly followed the Act’s requirements when it determined that it was not the State’s duty to provide the best education, but instead states are required to provide an appropriate education. Our holding today is further supported by the mainstreaming requirements of the Act which require that “to the maximum extent” possible, without sacrificing the child’s right to an appropriate education, the handicapped must be educated with the non-handicapped.”

Performance of included D/HOH

Antia 2009

Typical mean/SD

5021

5021

5021

10015

Areas of academic risk

Reading and Language

As an AR specialist, how could you support students with hearing loss in developing these skills?