Chapter 6

I think this question is sort of unfair to ask without knowing a child or the family. Testing is a great way to get a number but what does that number actually mean? I mean you can have two kids with the same number but are totally different. One child's family can be extremely involved and works with the child everyday expanding their vocabulary in sign and in English. Then you can have the other child with a family who doesn't care and just gives the child whatever s/he points to or grunts at. Those two children will look totally different. So I think the answer about SAT scores for child who are deaf or hard of hearing all depends on the family. There is so much that we do depends on how involved the family is.

I see the benefit of a BiBi program because it highlight the two language as equal. We know that reading and writing in English is very important because that how we operate in this world. However, the Deaf culture is just as important. So, a BiBi program teaches the children both methods. This way they child can read and write but at the same time be involved in the Deaf Culture.

We as teachers needs to look past the number from a test because that really doesn't mean anything cause so many things can affect it. We need to look at the family involvement and see how that plays in to the score and how we can continually improve the family involvement or how we can be a support to the family that is already involved.