Re: Possible North Carolina Relocation

[Guest guest]

There is a group out of NC called " Beginnings for Deaf and HH Children " . Do

a websearch and give them a call. I believe they are an

educational/advocacy group.

Are you looking for a school for the deaf?

I will be vistiing Western PA school for the Deaf at the end of the month.

mary

and since then my husband and I have started to look at a possible

relocation to North Carolina, specifically the Research Triangle Park area.

[Guest guest]

There is a group out of NC called " Beginnings for Deaf and HH Children " . Do

a websearch and give them a call. I believe they are an

educational/advocacy group.

Are you looking for a school for the deaf?

I will be vistiing Western PA school for the Deaf at the end of the month.

mary

and since then my husband and I have started to look at a possible

relocation to North Carolina, specifically the Research Triangle Park area.

[Guest guest]

> Hi Everyone,

>

> A week ago I posted a message regarding what would be the top state

to educate my HOH child and since then my husband and I have started

to look at a possible relocation to North Carolina, specifically the

Research Triangle Park area. >>>>>>>>>>>

Alisa,

I live in the RTP area, Raleigh to be exact. There are tons of deaf

kids around here for some reason. UNC has an excellent audilogical

program. I don't know your childs age but they also have a preschool

program there called CASTLE

(http://www.oraldeafed.org/schools/castle/)

I have been very happy with the school here in Wake county. We

actually moved here for the cued speech services years ago. I have

pretty much always gotten anything I asked for, even when they told

me no at first they did it. hehehe

They have programs for all modes and plenty of mainstream kids too.

http://www.wcpss.net/Instructional/specialprograms.html is the

website for the county school system. The person listed on the

county school website for DHH is Lynn Price, who will be my sons

teacher this year. (although I am not happy about this because they

are taking his itinerant that has been with him four years to the

middle school and bringing Lynn in because she cues also). Just to

clarify, my issue is not with the teacherthat is coming in, just that

my son has issues with adjusting to new people and anxiety and they

are changing so much on him this year i am afraid he will freak out.

We discussed this in his IEP but the person that decided this was not

in the IEP process.

You can also get the year end testing results for the schools to

decide what area of the county you want to live in. It is a great

county educationally, but there are a few schools that did not meet

the goals two years in a row. However, I don't think those end of

grade tests are that great of an idea to decide if a kid passes or

not because not all kids test well on paper...ok I won't get on my

soapbox about that..haha.

If you tell me your mode used and the childs age I can get you more

info.

Elaine

[Guest guest]

> Hi Everyone,

>

> A week ago I posted a message regarding what would be the top state

to educate my HOH child and since then my husband and I have started

to look at a possible relocation to North Carolina, specifically the

Research Triangle Park area. >>>>>>>>>>>

Alisa,

I live in the RTP area, Raleigh to be exact. There are tons of deaf

kids around here for some reason. UNC has an excellent audilogical

program. I don't know your childs age but they also have a preschool

program there called CASTLE

(http://www.oraldeafed.org/schools/castle/)

I have been very happy with the school here in Wake county. We

actually moved here for the cued speech services years ago. I have

pretty much always gotten anything I asked for, even when they told

me no at first they did it. hehehe

They have programs for all modes and plenty of mainstream kids too.

http://www.wcpss.net/Instructional/specialprograms.html is the

website for the county school system. The person listed on the

county school website for DHH is Lynn Price, who will be my sons

teacher this year. (although I am not happy about this because they

are taking his itinerant that has been with him four years to the

middle school and bringing Lynn in because she cues also). Just to

clarify, my issue is not with the teacherthat is coming in, just that

my son has issues with adjusting to new people and anxiety and they

are changing so much on him this year i am afraid he will freak out.

We discussed this in his IEP but the person that decided this was not

in the IEP process.

You can also get the year end testing results for the schools to

decide what area of the county you want to live in. It is a great

county educationally, but there are a few schools that did not meet

the goals two years in a row. However, I don't think those end of

grade tests are that great of an idea to decide if a kid passes or

not because not all kids test well on paper...ok I won't get on my

soapbox about that..haha.

If you tell me your mode used and the childs age I can get you more

info.

Elaine

[Guest guest]

--- In Listen-Up , " Alisa Oliver " <alisaoliver@c...> >

You mentioned there were a lot of HOH/Deaf kids in the schools. I am

> assuming you are talking about public school, correct?

>

>

Yes, Alisa I am referring to public school. Most of the kids here

are mainstreamed that I know with support of a translator or

transliterator if needed. Then they have the TOD's that go to the

schools. Lacy Elementary has the oral program. I think that they do

like pre-k there as well because a little guy we know was going there

before he was in Kindergarten. I am not sure about sign program

schools but I can find out from (Jake's TOD and great friend

of mine). I have heard that all the TOD's here are awesome.

My son was in a CS program school but is the only kid there this

year and is fully mainstreamed with a TOD three times a week this

year. Last year it was once a day but she still just came there to

see the two kids.

Let me know if I can help you any more or if you want info I can get

from .

Elaine