My daughter has brain damage, and we had to pull her out of the public school because they wouldn’t do anything to help her even though she qualified for all kinds of help.
My son is not legally anything, so they are useless. He is just not an auditory learner. I’m sure it would fall below average if they tested him. I know that I always have him repeat things that I tell him to do to make sure he hears me.
I also know that being in a noisy room and trying to hear anything is even worse for kids like him.
I also know that you never want to rely on 1 form of communication. You tell kids, and then you show them. You also need to communicate important information to the parents.
All the school had to do was put the media center closure on the school website calendar.
“I know that I always have him repeat things that I tell him to do to make sure he hears me.”
Oh yeah.
I had my parents thinking I was completely deaf from ages 12 to about 23.
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Seriously though, it’s a lot to ask of the school to make a routine annoucement in several different forms. A note home to parents that the lab would be closed after school?? Not going to happen.