Changing Schools for the Deaf: Updating the Educational Setting for Our Deaf Children in the 21st Century, a Big Challenge

Autor/inn/en	De Raeve, Leo; Baerts, Johan; Colleye, Evelyne; Croux, Edith
Titel	Changing Schools for the Deaf: Updating the Educational Setting for Our Deaf Children in the 21st Century, a Big Challenge
Quelle	In: Deafness and Education International, 14 (2012) 1, S.48-59 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1464-3154
DOI	10.1179/1557069X11Y.0000000012
Schlagwörter	Special Schools; Early Intervention; Speech; Oral Language; Deafness; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Screening Tests; Assistive Technology; Mainstreaming; Child Care Centers; Special Needs Students; Student Needs; Education Service Centers; Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Special school; Sonderschule; Speaking; Sprechen; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Ausland; Bildungsreform; Screening-Verfahren; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Education; Service center; Service centers; Service centre; Service centres; Pädagogisches Zentrum; Belgien
Abstract	In the last two decades the population of deaf children has changed dramatically in these countries where universal hearing screening, early intervention, digital hearing aids, and cochlear implants are available. Most of these children can now acquire intelligible spoken language and they go to mainstream school in larger proportions. But mainstream placement does not eliminate the need for services, which will vary depending upon the child's age, school curriculum, language, and other child-specific factors. This paper reports on the content of all these changes and will also show you how one of the schools for the deaf in Belgium, called KIDS (Royal Institute for the deaf) has adapted his educational setting to their changing population of deaf children. The special school for the deaf became a service centre for the deaf. Within this service centre, which has to deal with the whole, very heterogeneous group of deaf children, there are several departments: early intervention, daycare centre, pre-, primary and vocational training school, mainstreamed support service, audiological centre, and residential department. All this is a big challenge for the management of the service centre, who must ensure that their staff have the skills to meet these challenges. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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