“At the end of the day, this entire conversation is about right-sizing the budget for deaf education in Indiana,” Ms. Horton said. “No one wants to take the ASL option away; we simply want to see that parents who choose listening and spoken language instruction (over placement at the Indiana School for the Deaf) have equal access to a free and appropriate public education.”
'But Hear Indiana says the financing is already lopsided against a spoken approach, spending far more, the group says, on the students attending the school than on the rest of the state’s more than 1,800 deaf or hard-of-hearing students, who go to school elsewhere.'
'Deaf and Hearing Impaired' is like saying 'black and n**' or Deaf and Deaf (in bad word). It doesn't make sense to say it double. A large percent of Deaf kids go to mainstream or oral schools in Indiana, so I think they should fund more to ISD, but Deaf impaired people run Deaf people in the state. It's abaud (I replace it for absurd). We win, because we know facts and don't have as much as their hatreds. However, we need to win more for sake of kids and justice.
it's about seizing the control of the funds. they feel that the oral programs haven't been adequately funded & that more money are spent in deaf bi-bi programs. when they gain the control of the outreach program, they will switch the funding more & more to the oral programs. that's the real agenda. how do i know this? one of the hearindiana board member made a statement about reappropriating funds more equally. they claim that the parents don't have equal access to available resources.
@mishkazena Can you send me the link to the statement by the Hear Ind. board member about reappropriating funds? I think I can make a follow-up vlog on that idea. Since you tube usually doesn't allow sending links in comments, you can send it to my email which I know you have.
@DrDonGCSUS it wasn't through the ISD board's official channel, but that statement was made during an interview for a newspaper covering the controversy of ISD board, i think. i'll need to find the article. others have seen that comment, too.
@mishkazena But it is so strange that they refuse to work with the current outreach so that they could have gotten a more of a fair share of the funds, and almost all of them never stepped a foot on ISD campus. They DO NOT WANT TO SEE SIGN LANGUAGE. They want to stay away from it, have the new center somewhere else. These people are the ones who need therapy more than any Deaf child needs speech therapy!
No Deaf Centered Politics inside the legislative processes, and relying on hearing politicans is how all Deaf Communities plan on doing will surely lose more than they win some. Victory in winning some and losing more is still wrong! That is why ISD does exist and 90% of the Deaf still end up going to Oral Programs etc.. Lucky 10% goes to ISD. We did not do enough for our Deaf Communities! Wake up!
question, is hear indiana a therapy or a school?
butterflyfirefly77 1 month ago
@butterflyfirefly77 Hear Indiana is an organization - a chapter of the AG Bell Association (supports oralism).
DrDonGCSUS 1 month ago
From New York Times: Among Twists in Budget Woes, Tensions Over Teaching the Deaf
i'll send you the link
mishkazena 1 month ago
“At the end of the day, this entire conversation is about right-sizing the budget for deaf education in Indiana,” Ms. Horton said. “No one wants to take the ASL option away; we simply want to see that parents who choose listening and spoken language instruction (over placement at the Indiana School for the Deaf) have equal access to a free and appropriate public education.”
mishkazena 1 month ago
'But Hear Indiana says the financing is already lopsided against a spoken approach, spending far more, the group says, on the students attending the school than on the rest of the state’s more than 1,800 deaf or hard-of-hearing students, who go to school elsewhere.'
mishkazena 1 month ago
'Deaf and Hearing Impaired' is like saying 'black and n**' or Deaf and Deaf (in bad word). It doesn't make sense to say it double. A large percent of Deaf kids go to mainstream or oral schools in Indiana, so I think they should fund more to ISD, but Deaf impaired people run Deaf people in the state. It's abaud (I replace it for absurd). We win, because we know facts and don't have as much as their hatreds. However, we need to win more for sake of kids and justice.
Salticid68 1 month ago
it's about seizing the control of the funds. they feel that the oral programs haven't been adequately funded & that more money are spent in deaf bi-bi programs. when they gain the control of the outreach program, they will switch the funding more & more to the oral programs. that's the real agenda. how do i know this? one of the hearindiana board member made a statement about reappropriating funds more equally. they claim that the parents don't have equal access to available resources.
mishkazena 1 month ago
@mishkazena Unfortunately, that's accurate. It usually goes back to the almighty dollar and the quest to fit children into the social ideal.
shelpotma1 1 month ago
@mishkazena Can you send me the link to the statement by the Hear Ind. board member about reappropriating funds? I think I can make a follow-up vlog on that idea. Since you tube usually doesn't allow sending links in comments, you can send it to my email which I know you have.
DrDonGCSUS 1 month ago
@DrDonGCSUS it wasn't through the ISD board's official channel, but that statement was made during an interview for a newspaper covering the controversy of ISD board, i think. i'll need to find the article. others have seen that comment, too.
mishkazena 1 month ago
@mishkazena But it is so strange that they refuse to work with the current outreach so that they could have gotten a more of a fair share of the funds, and almost all of them never stepped a foot on ISD campus. They DO NOT WANT TO SEE SIGN LANGUAGE. They want to stay away from it, have the new center somewhere else. These people are the ones who need therapy more than any Deaf child needs speech therapy!
chsasl 1 month ago
No Deaf Centered Politics inside the legislative processes, and relying on hearing politicans is how all Deaf Communities plan on doing will surely lose more than they win some. Victory in winning some and losing more is still wrong! That is why ISD does exist and 90% of the Deaf still end up going to Oral Programs etc.. Lucky 10% goes to ISD. We did not do enough for our Deaf Communities! Wake up!
Bunjer 1 month ago