American School for the Deaf- the first, the best, and one of the only deaf schools in the country. Children outside of New England and a few other locales with special needs have miserable choices and their education and their lives suffer greatly.
You are so wrong. The American School for the Deaf is a terrible school. It is an oralism school. My wife didn't truly get a good education until she got to Gallaudet where she learned ASL.
At ASD she was abused emotionally and physically by the students and the teachers for her physical disabilities.
It was the unconditional love she received from her parents that made the difference in her life, not the schools she attended.
Thank God for her loving parents. She must have been very bright and tenacious to have survived a terrible schooling and came out on top.
That’s horrible about ASD, I hope they have turned around since that was several decades ago and are not still strictly oralism. Galludet U. has a second school campus in St. Augustine for both the deaf & blind.
I think online learning or partial online learning can be a huge learning tool for special needs kids because the materials can be delivered in written or audio form and repeated as necessary at the learners convenience. Interaction is often more engaging between teachers and students or within guided group activities.