When I think of deaf education and general education I think of Residential schools/LRE's and mainstream schooling.  I think that some deaf students can thrive in either.  Just because you have a student who is deaf, does not mean you should automatically send them to a residential school.  However, they might not do well in mainstream schooling either because they may not understand certain concepts as quickly as hearing kids can and they may fall behind.  I ultimately think it depends on the parents to do what is best for their child.

Its easy to think that Deaf individuals may not be as smart but really they are possibly more.

If someone was looking at someone who is Deaf it may be easy to think that they may not be as intellectual as hearing people or as smart as them. When you actually look at everything they actually may just have more knowledge than hearing people, we only use English to communicate when they have ASL as their main source of communication but then also have to learn for the most part the entire English language as well. Although it may be tougher for them to learn the information if the teacher is hearing and are learning through an interpreter. Some of the information may get jumbled together and hard to understand. But looking at everything we have learned and from the panel it may be harder for them to learn and understand or figure out which school is better for them, but when they find which works better for them they can be just like hearing people and do everything that we can do just with out hearing.

When I think of Deaf edducation and general education...

 

I think of how over the past 40 years the most profound influence on deaf education is general education. The merge of deaf education with general education led to education for all children from the 1975 act. I think there have been many changes in todays society with new technology to improve both types of education. Overall I think of how without both of these education wouldn’t be the same as it is today.

 

Its easy to think.. but when you look at the facts

Its easy to think that all parents with deaf children would know ASL, but when you look at the facts such as the panel talked about not all parents choose to learn ASL, and some try but don't pick it up as easily or get as fluent. Some parents just find other ways to communicate but can put a barrier and a distance in between the parent and child as we watched in videos during this class as well.

When I think of Deaf education and general education I think...

that they can be one in the same. I think that it is important for Deaf students to have the knowledge that general education provides because it gives background knowledge that will be useful later in their life. However, I think that Deaf history, sign language, etc. could be incorporated into general education so that they still have that knowledge as well.