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Anecdotal
evidence of progress
- December 2003
While
insufficient quantitative data has been collected to draw conclusions
we offer the following anecdotal evidence
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All teachers, students and parents seem enthusiastic
- One
student had to have here wireless text messaging device confiscated
briefly because she refused to stop using it during class. (While
this is a problem for the teacher all involved agree that she
is using it, she is using a keyboard, and she is using English.)
- Two
students had to be disciplined for sending inappropriate humour
to the teacher (One of the problems of deaf children is that they
are not included in decisions about their lives and as a result
are socially delayed. For me the positive side is that they are
learning required social decision making skills.)
- One
child in October sent a message to the head of the deaf department
at his school to the effect that he was going to commit suicide.
They were able to get him a social worker before midnight. (For
me the positive part of this experiment is that he was using a
keyboard, using English, and talking about his problems which
will help his social development.)
- One
mother of a deaf elementary student who travels on the TTC for
an integration program at another elementary school threatened
to give me a big hug because she felt so much better being able
to contact her child at all times and that her child could contact
her if she were lost or frightened. (I declined the hug as it
would be too frightening and we both smiled.)
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