17 Facts About Deaf education

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Deaf education is the education of students with any degree of hearing loss or deafness.

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Oralism was established as an alternative to manual education and stands in opposition to the use of sign language in the education of deaf and hard of hearing students.

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3.

Residential schools for the Deaf education provide more opportunities for socialization and identification with the Deaf education community and better access to school curriculum.

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Mainstreaming in general Deaf education settings provides students with the opportunity to socialize with their hearing peers and learn skills to adapt to environments dominated by hearing people.

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However, in general education settings, Deaf students tend to perform worse than their hearing peers academically due to miscommunications that occur through third-person Sign Language interpreting.

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Deaf education schools eliminate the need for third-person interpreting, and thus, reduce the probability of miscommunication between teachers and Deaf education students.

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7.

Deaf education schools provide the opportunity for Deaf education students to learn Sign Language, which can improve their scholastic and social-emotional capability.

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8.

Deaf education did charitable work for the poor, and on one trip into the Paris slums saw two young, deaf sisters who communicated with a sign language.

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9.

Deaf education was the first person in England to propose educating deaf people, outlining plans for an academy in Philocophus and The Dumbe mans academie.

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10.

Deaf education was either deaf at birth, or became so before acquiring speech.

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11.

Deaf education's ideology was that lipreading made his students understand the language as it was spoken and used in society.

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12.

Wesley School for the Deaf education is the oldest school for the Deaf education in Nigeria, being founded in 1958.

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The Wesley School for the Deaf education is still teaching the Deaf education in Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria with the help of the Wesley Methodist mission and the state government.

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The Blueprint on Education of the Handicapped in Nigeria started in 1989, which established several schools, like School for the Deaf Akure, catering especially to those with special education needs.

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Deaf education was the first African American graduate of Gallaudet University with a degree in education in 1954.

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16.

Some deaf students receive an individualized education program outlining how the school will meet the student's individual needs.

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17.

Canada upholds and recognizes the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities stating that all Deaf education people have the right to be educated in sign language.

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