Changing Educational Services
Friday May 13th 2005, 2:30pm — 3:00pm
Dr. Leo J I De Raeve
Last decade the population of hearing impaired and deaf children has changed dramatically in some countries of the European Union. Especially in those countries where Universal Hearing Screening, early multi-disciplinary support and digital hearing aids and cochlear implants are available.
We see now that most of these children can acquire intelligible spoken language and choose spoken language as their main means of communication and for access to education, because they go to mainstream schools in larger proportions, and fewer to schools for the deaf. Mainstream placements do not eliminate the need for services, which will vary depending upon the child’s age, language modality, and other child specific factors.
But there will also be a population (30%) who may not do well because they have other problems in addition to being deaf.
Because the hearing impaired and deaf population is a very heterogeneous population, it’s very important to have a multidisciplinary approach from the beginning.
All this is a big change for the educational services. So we must ensure that these people have the skills to meet these challenges: to be flexible, continually updated with the technology and changing expectations (ongoing professional training), to provide environment which will utilise the useful hearing while meeting the linguistic and curricular needs of the children, to meet the psycho-social needs of this group as they grow through adolescence and to work with other professionals.
Now, and looking ahead, the challenge for deaf education is also to embrace the diversity of this population and then to appropriately address the specific needs of each child in his/her family in that specific country.
In this presentation we shall look in more detail at the changing educational setting and we shall meet the challenges (concerns) of educational services working with these hearing impaired or deaf children.
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