forcing hearing children to learn as deaf children must

So it's official.

Whole language was explicitly based in the ineffective visual method Gallaudet developed for teaching deaf children to read.

Whole language doesn't work for deaf children any better than it does for hearing children, but until the invention of cued speech it was all they had.

Ninety-five per cent of profoundly deaf school-leavers only reach a reading-age of nine. This functional illiteracy means that even the nuances of stories from basic tabloid newspapers are beyond the reach of many deaf adults. Recent surveys show that even since Conrad's (1979) seminal work, The Deaf School Child, not much has changed, even though much deaf education in the UK has metamorphosed from an oral to a signing basis. It would appear that whether a school's language policy is sign or speech based is irrelevant to helping deaf children become competent readers.
source:
Literacy Today

Reid Lyon is right.

Using balanced literacy is a case of educational malpractice.


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