Word: gallaudet
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...class of 76 takes on the world, colleges across the country look to the performance of their placement programs as one indication of their success. At Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., the figures are heartening. By September, more than 90% of the school's 147 graduating men and women will find a spot in either graduate school, teaching, social work, a Government agency or private industry. What makes the figure all the more impressive is that Gallaudet is a college for the deaf...
Model Grants. Founded by an act of Congress signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1864, Gallaudet is the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the world. It draws its 1,000 students from 22 countries, but most applicants are Americans who receive scholarships from their states to help pay the $3,000 annual fee for tuition, room and board. Congress contributes 90% of Gallaudet's operating costs as well as grants to operate model elementary and secondary schools for the deaf and a center that provides legal advice on request from the 14 million people...
Whereas many schools for the deaf, especially in Europe, insist that their students learn to lip-read-theoretically, to make their handicap as unnoticeable as possible-Gallaudet favors a "total communications" approach. Signed English, or manual translation of the language, is used in classes as the teachers speak their lectures, while Ameslan, or American Sign Language, a grammatically different and faster sign language, is used by some teachers and is popular among the students out of class. Since many Gallaudet students enroll with vocabulary deficiencies, especially if they are deaf from birth, a preparatory year is added to the normal...
More than a fourth of the 186 teachers at Gallaudet are themselves deaf, and all must learn sign language if they want tenure. A full range of courses is available in the humanities, arts and sciences, and conversational courses in Spanish and French are particularly popular. These courses are taught by either phonic spelling or "cued" speech, a system of hand signals made close to the mouth...
...those at other colleges. At Teacher Beverly Bocaner's class on auditory and communication processes, almost all the T-shirted, blue-jeaned students pay close attention, but in the back of the room a few students "whisper" (in discreet sign language). Says Senior Math Major David Birnbaum: "At Gallaudet I can argue and discuss things. I'm really part of the class...