Re:Does anyone home school?

[Guest guest]

Alissa,

We are planning to part time home school Cameron this fall for

Kindergarten and send him half day to his DHH program. He'll still get

OT, PT and Speech through the school district. I have to keep reminding

myself that it's " just Kindergarten " and that he'll be fine. But I also

believe it's important for him to have contact with native ASL signers -

including one of his friends in class - so I don't want to completely

cut that out of his life. However, I don't have much confidence in the

educational part of the program so I hope this will give him the best of

both worlds for now - this year. He's been in some kind of ASL based

intervention program for the last four years and uses ASL to clarify his

speech or just when he wants to use it. BTW, how does your son

communicate? ASL? Voice? SEE?

Cameron has a conductive loss (severe/profound) and we just confirmed

today that he's lost more hearing in some frequencies (15-20 db). His

audiologist is baffled about this - but she can't figure out why he has

the hearing loss he has and how he does so well with it. We just figure

it's one of the things that makes him Cameron.

We have another son, who will be in second grade and has been

home schooled for kindergarten and first grade. It will be interesting

to have two in home school. But I'm looking forward to it. We will be at

the conference next week so if you are going it would be great to get

together and discuss this further.

Mom to Cameron, 5, CHaRGE and , 7

[Guest guest]

,

Thank you for your response. Even though we have been home schoolers for about

7

years now I have been feeling a little bit like a freak since getting

out of the

program at school.

was in a Total Communication classroom for the last two years. Signing

was a

life saver for us in the beginning just so we could get along in our daily

lives.

uses his voice almost exclusively now but I continue with signing and speaking.

His

teacher believes he will soon drop his signing altogether. He has a

sensorineural loss,

profound in his left ear(everything that has been effected is on the left) and

only a very

mild loss in his right. He wears hearing aids in both for now. We attend

events and

activities with people from the deaf cultural, where a lot of signing is going

on, but it just

doesn't look like that is going to be a fit for him. Even in his classroom his

cliques were

with the hearing kids and when we talk about the other kids at school he

classifies them

as deaf, a little deaf, and hearing. He puts himself in the hearing category.

I wish I could come to the conference. We live in Las Vegas and it is so close

this year.

However, my husband started a new job and we are moving to a new house on Aug

14.

Way too much going on to travel right now.

I too am wondering how it will be adding one more to the mix.

Thanks again.

Alissa

>

> Alissa,

>

> We are planning to part time home school Cameron this fall for

> Kindergarten and send him half day to his DHH program. He'll still get

> OT, PT and Speech through the school district. I have to keep reminding

> myself that it's " just Kindergarten " and that he'll be fine. But I also

> believe it's important for him to have contact with native ASL signers -

> including one of his friends in class - so I don't want to completely

> cut that out of his life. However, I don't have much confidence in the

> educational part of the program so I hope this will give him the best of

> both worlds for now - this year. He's been in some kind of ASL based

> intervention program for the last four years and uses ASL to clarify his

> speech or just when he wants to use it. BTW, how does your son

> communicate? ASL? Voice? SEE?

>

> Cameron has a conductive loss (severe/profound) and we just confirmed

> today that he's lost more hearing in some frequencies (15-20 db). His

> audiologist is baffled about this - but she can't figure out why he has

> the hearing loss he has and how he does so well with it. We just figure

> it's one of the things that makes him Cameron.

>

> We have another son, who will be in second grade and has been

> home schooled for kindergarten and first grade. It will be interesting

> to have two in home school. But I'm looking forward to it. We will be at

> the conference next week so if you are going it would be great to get

> together and discuss this further.

>

>

> Mom to Cameron, 5, CHaRGE and , 7

>