Guest guest Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 > Question... > > ... My concern > here is their huge language/reading delay with be pooh-poohed by the > professionals that deal with them if they actually think just because you > are deaf means you will only read to the 3rd or 4th grade level. I shared this with my HoH son, age 11 in Grade six with moderately sloping to severe bilateral hearing impairment. He shook his head and dismissed that idea as bull. He is following an unmodified program but uses a personal FM system at school. Now, admittedly he has had the advantage of awesome parents <bows> and supports provided since his dx at the age of one year, but he reads *ABOVE* his grade level. If a topic interests him enough he can far surpass his peers. Phonetic spelling is a challenge for him, but because he is aware of the difficulty he has, he is able to work at that part of it by over-emphasising the sounds. -- tfloyd@... " The person sitting next to you is weirder than you can possibly imagine. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 > Question... > > ... My concern > here is their huge language/reading delay with be pooh-poohed by the > professionals that deal with them if they actually think just because you > are deaf means you will only read to the 3rd or 4th grade level. I shared this with my HoH son, age 11 in Grade six with moderately sloping to severe bilateral hearing impairment. He shook his head and dismissed that idea as bull. He is following an unmodified program but uses a personal FM system at school. Now, admittedly he has had the advantage of awesome parents <bows> and supports provided since his dx at the age of one year, but he reads *ABOVE* his grade level. If a topic interests him enough he can far surpass his peers. Phonetic spelling is a challenge for him, but because he is aware of the difficulty he has, he is able to work at that part of it by over-emphasising the sounds. -- tfloyd@... " The person sitting next to you is weirder than you can possibly imagine. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 > Question... > > ... My concern > here is their huge language/reading delay with be pooh-poohed by the > professionals that deal with them if they actually think just because you > are deaf means you will only read to the 3rd or 4th grade level. I shared this with my HoH son, age 11 in Grade six with moderately sloping to severe bilateral hearing impairment. He shook his head and dismissed that idea as bull. He is following an unmodified program but uses a personal FM system at school. Now, admittedly he has had the advantage of awesome parents <bows> and supports provided since his dx at the age of one year, but he reads *ABOVE* his grade level. If a topic interests him enough he can far surpass his peers. Phonetic spelling is a challenge for him, but because he is aware of the difficulty he has, he is able to work at that part of it by over-emphasising the sounds. -- tfloyd@... " The person sitting next to you is weirder than you can possibly imagine. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 On 3/15/04 5:54 AM, " Listen-Up " <Listen-Up > wrote: > Do any of you have any other hard facts or statistics to compare deaf > individuals? I would certainly appreciate anything you have. My concern here > is their huge language/reading delay with be pooh-poohed by the professionals > that deal with them if they actually think just because you are deaf means you > will only read to the 3rd or 4th grade level. > Thanks ahead of time. > Tish Because the average deaf chlld is reading at a 3rd or 4th grade level doesn't make it acceptable or something not to deal with-so no matter what statistics are out there, it doesn't mean it can't be improved. What makes a deaf child have good reading skills (the million $$ question) is a variable of lots of different things--but I would not let them justify it because it's the norm. My son, a junior in high school, reads well above grade level and always has. He scores at 99% in the standardized CA tests (Stanford 9) with no accomodations and is in Advanced Placement English. Why, I can't say for sure. He started reading very young (basically self-taught, before he was 3) and he's obviously bright. He has always been able to understand the meaning of words through context, and thus has never required 'preteaching.' I know this doesn't really address your question, but I feel like the statistics aren't really applicable. Because that's the way it is, doesn't mean that's the way it has to be or that 'we' have to settle for it. Joan Starn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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