All children benefit from being around other children. Home schooling can be great for the academics but socialization opportunities must be provided. Deaf children do fine in public schools as long as the school provides qualified teachers (who are proficient in ASL). I’m the mom of a deaf daughter; she went to public schools and now has several post-grad degrees as well. The #1 recommendation would be for parents & sibs to learn ASL and insist that their child be provided with interpreters for situations out side of the ASL classroom.

Hi – Your question caught my attention because I have a degree in Services to the Deaf. This is strictly my opinion only. I do homeschool, but all of my children are hearing. I think homeschooling is great!! It is not for everyone though. For someone like me, I MIGHT attempt to teach my child if they were deaf. For most though, I would not suggest an inexperienced parent try to homeschool their deaf child. The public schools are not necessarily the best option either, but most states offer special services for the deaf. Most of these programs are good if you have individuals working in that profession that have a passion for helping the deaf. Now, hard of hearing can put a totally different spin on the situation because it depends on the degree of hearing loss. I would tend to still stick with the answers I have given above, but the hard of hearing child would really need to be evaluated. There are many HOH children that still thrive in a public school setting. Anyway, just an opinion. Hope it helps! Thanks!

I, myself am hearing impaired and I can proudly say that I went to a public school and did great! Home schools are a wonderful thing, but I believe that all kids need that interaction and social skills development. This is so important for them to learn because they will be faced with the Giant world someday. To have the hearing impaired and the deaf in a public school also helps the other students to learn better communication with them by either lip reading or sign language. In the schools, these kids will have an IEP set up for them by the teachers and parents. This helps them to accommodate the student’s individual needs, so they have a great learning experience. Good luck!

Im a sub-teacher and occasionally have the opportunity to workwith DHH kids. A DHH program in a school does wonders for them. This way they are exposed to general population and learn how to deal with the hearing world. Since an overwhelming majority of hearing people cannot communicate via sign language, they are the ones who have to adapt.

DHH teachers and aids teach the kids how to be aware of the world around them and how to interact with their hearing peers. The deaf have their own little world. Deaf students “talk” constantly with one another and make good friends. In my opinion, going to school is very beneficial to their overall development. Also, a DHH program will have access to educational resourses and instruction material that would be very expensive for the home user. At home a student’s world would be uniquly small and isolated.

I always enjoy my time with these students. They are expressive and affectionate. They learn to teach others sign language. Hope this helps a little. If you want more, ask your local school district if you can visit a DHH classrom. You will learn a lot.

hi… I even have the comparable listening to loss as you and without listening to aids, close selection sounds. My adventure in the two HOH and Deaf community for the duration of the final 30 years has given me this… Deaf: lifestyle the place ASL sign is the 1st language and their way of existence. no longer each and every person gets huge-unfold. deaf : Pidgin, blended bag of communications. Can use the two oral and sign language as entire verbal exchange. it truly is the main undemanding id and the main used term for id of listening to loss. problematic of listening to: can denote a individual with a delicate-to-average or worse, listening to loss. Or it may denote a deaf individual who doesn’t have/go with any cultural association with the Deaf community. Or the two. The HOH quandary: in some techniques listening to, in some techniques deaf, in others, neither. The term “listening to-impaired” is seen as detrimental. The term makes a speciality of what human beings can’t do. It establishes the first as “listening to” and something diverse as “impaired,” or substandard, hindered, or broken. It means that something isn’t wisely and can be fixed if attainable. To be honest, this will not be what human beings meant to place across via the term “listening to impaired.” Hospitals, Audiologists and prefer-minded companies use this term. We, as those with listening to loss, hate it reason we are no longer “impaired” you realize?.

I think public schools, because the child will be exposed to more ideas & get better socialization experiences.

check your local Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR), local ARK, and Department of Education.