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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1979
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PEARL/FIJI
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Softball Tournament
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for parents, teachers of deaf children
DATE: APRIL 6, 7, 8
PLACE: BEE CREEK PARK
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1414 S. College
Bryan
779-9696
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College Station
696-7231
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By DEBBIE PARSONS
Battalion Staff
Try sitting in a room full of deaf
people talking in sign language
sometime and you may get an idea
of what it is like for them to live in
this world. There would probably
be a definite communications gap.
They wouldn’t hear you and you
wouldn’t understand them.
Parents of deaf children make
several decisions on how they are
going to teach their children to pre
vent such a communications gap.
The class for the deaf at Sul Ross
Elementary School and the
homebound program are options for
parents offered by the Bryan Inde
pendent School District. Another
option is the Texas State School for
the Deaf in Austin.
Sarah Pack, an inquisitive 2Vfe-
year-old, was left severely deaf after
she caught spinal meningitis at 20
months of age.
Sarah has two hearing aids, some
times mistaken in stores for ciga
rettes or transistor radios, which she
carries in her vest pockets.
After having tests run to make
sure the cause of her hearing loss
wasn’t psychological, Frank and
Robbie Pack decided how to teach
their daughter.
There are three methods for
teaching the deaf: the total com-
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APRIL 1 st-6th
Sunday, April
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time: 4:00 p.m.
place: rudder theatre
admission: 50c
ABDULLAH TARIKI
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time: 8:00 pm
place: msc 206
Monday, April
CULTURAL DISPLAY
time: 9:00-5:00 pm
place: 1st floor msc
Tuesday, April 3
MOVIE: ‘STATE OF SIEGE’
time: 8:00 pm
place: msc 201
admission: 50c
Thursday, April 5
FOOD FAIR
time: 6:30-8:00 pm
place: msc 228
By Invitation Only
TALENT SHOW
time: 8:00-10:00 pm
place: msc 201
Wednesday, April 4
‘ENERGY, OPEC & the U.S.
SPEAKER: SHEIKH
Friday, April 6
DANCING PARTY
time: 8:00 pm-1:00 am
place: quonset hut b
munication method, the oral
method and the aural method.
The total communication method
uses sign language, hearing aids, lip
reading and whatever residual hear
ing the child has.
The oral method uses lip reading
and residual hearing. The aural
method works only with residual
hearing.
The Packs chose the total com
munication method.
“We feel that Sarah should take
advantage of any form of communi
cation open to her,” Frank Pack
said.
The Packs have taken courses and
learned as much as possible to teach
Sarah themselves.
They took a one-week course last
summer at the Callier Center for
Communication Disorders in Dal
las. The center counsels parents on
techniques for working with deaf
children, and helps them deal with
their emotions. The center also of
fers audiological testing and infor
mation on new research activities.
The Packs also learned the basics
of auditory teaching from Carolyn
Brown in Conroe.
Some basics include teaching
Sarah to listen, to watch lips, to
make everyday experiences into a
lesson and to take sound walks.
Sound walks teach a child to
understand what it is that makes a
specific sound which is “half the bat
tle,” Robbie Pack said.
Sarah is able to hear pure tones,
which are high pitches and vowel
sounds, through her hearing aid.
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RAJUAUCE
AT END OF:
1st 'Fear
$88
$ 311.89
$80
$ 622.58
$ioo
$ 1,245.16
$188
$ 1,556.43
and 'Fear
648.50
1,297.00
2,594.00
3,242.50
3rd Year
1,013.80
2,027.60
4,055.20
5,068.99
4th Year
1,409.58
2,819.04
5,638.08
7.047.60
8th. Year
1,838.20
3,676.40
7,352.80
9,191.01
6th Year
2,302.59
4,605.18
9.210.36
11,512.93
7th Year
2,805.65
5,611.30
11,222.60
14,028.24
8th Year
3,350.61
6,701.22
13,402.44
16.753.05
9th Year
3,940.96
7,881.92
15,763.84
19.704.79
XOth Year
4,580.48
9,160.96
18.321.92
22,902.38
18th Year
8,671.47
17.342.94
34,685.88
43,357.35
aoth Year
14,774.51
29,549.02
59,098.04
73,872.57
asth Year
23,879.19
47,758.38
95,516.74
119.395.93
30th Year
37,461.76
74,923.52
149.847.04
187.308.80
38th Year
57.724.58
115.449.16
230.898.33
288,622.91
40th Year
$87,953.16
$175,906.32
$351,812.63
$439,765.79
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her hearing aid and lip reading be
fore teaching her sign language so
she would get used to being deaf,
Frank Pack said.
The Packs including their
4-year-old son, Chris, are learning
sign language.
“Chris has fun learning sign lan
guage and makes games out of it,
Robbie Pack said. “He’s super in
helping other people understand
Sarah. He’s her interpreter.”
The Packs take pictures of things
they do, such as taking trips to the
zoo, to show Sarah what they are
teaching her.
“The picture album is very useful
for explaining the past tense,’ Rob
bie Pack said. “Past and future
tenses are difficult for the deaf to
understand and having pictures to
explain helps a great deal.
Sarah’s other senses have become
stronger. For example, she is very
perceptive about moods and can tell
when someone is not comfortable
around her.
“You have to be more honest with
yourself and with Sarah,’ Robbie
Pack said
Melody Hall, from the home-
bound program, teaches Sarah
for one hour three days a week.
Because Sarah was 20 months old
when she lost her hearing, she al
ready knew a lot of words. So she is
basically relearning how to express
herself. Hall said.
It is very common that a child
who is lacking in one skill will com
pensate for it in another, she said.
Sarah is at about a four-year level
in motor skills, so she basically
works with verbal and perceptual
skills, Hall said.
Sarah and Hall have recently
been working on learning about
animals. They took a field trip to see
barnyard animals so the concepts
she learns are based on reality.
Teaching deaf children isn’t easy,
Hall said. The teacher always has to
think about what he is saying.
“With regular kids you can be
talking while thinking about some
thing else, but with a deaf child you
have to really concentrate on what
you are teaching, or he will be con
fused,” she said.
Hall uses the total communication
method to teach Sarah. She gives
the Packs ideas on how to teach
Sarah.
Next year Sarah will probably go
part time to a class for the deaf.
“It is important for Sarah to be
around other deaf children for her
self-concept,” Hall said. “She needs
to know that she’s not weird; that
she’s not the only deaf child. ”
It will depend on Sarah when she
will be ready to attend full time.
It is easy to try to be “super par
ents” by pushing Sarah to learn all
the time, the Packs said.
“I want Sarah to be a normal little
child and play with her toys or in
her sandbox, just like any other
child her age, Robbie Pack said.
When Sarah is ready, she will go
to the class for the deaf taught by
Jayne Davenport.
There are three full-time and two
part-time students in the class.
Their ages range from 5 to 12
years. Each student has a specific
curriculum depending on his hear
ing loss and capabilities.
Each curriculum is based on lan
guage development. Quarterly goals
are made for each student and are
later evaluated.
For example, Chris, a 5-year-old
deaf and blind boy, recently
achieved his quarterly goal by walk
ing with correct balance.
Davenport and her teacher aide,
Nancy Harris, teach in two basic
areas; developmental and content.
her,’Harris said. “Hertea^
learn signs that are
Davenport uses" 6 ^
while teaching the chilf en
is a microphone thatp icks ;
she says and transmits her J
hearing aids the students J
at a certain frequency to £
static background noises
Two students attend Dave,
class during semester break
the Texas State School forS
in Austin.
Donna and Herbert Rich ar j
cently decided to enroll i
6-year-old daughter, Holly ir
state school.
Developmental works with the
child’s self-concept and content
teaches language, math, English,
social studies, science and reading.
There are very few textbooks for
the deaf, so they make their own.
“Everything has to be visual since
a major concept to get across is that
words stand for things,” Davenport
said.
Harris is an interpreter for Robin,
a 12-year-old who attends fifth grade
classes at Lamar School for gym,
lunch and social studies.
“Other children look at Robin dif
ferently, but they try to help her by
learning signs to communicate with
Holly has attended the deal
at Sul Ross since she was 16®
old. The Richards feel she will
more by being with childrea
own age with similar hearingli
“There is only one teaclie
children with an age range
3-12 years, with various fo
losses, Donna Richards
“Holly was caught in themiddl
wasn’t learning as much as we
she can.”
Nancy Harris’s 9-year-oldsoi
attends the school in Austin
goes there mainly to be with
deaf students his age, Harriss
“Right now it is hard to just
the state or special program
partment creating another cl*
the deaf with so few studentsi
class as it is,” Davenport said,
hope that eventually we wil
more than one class.”
Children to get
math, reading ai
By REGINA MOEHLMAN
Battalion Reporter
Many Bryan elementary children
who are behind in math or reading
can get some special help this sum
mer and have fun, too.
For the 15th year, Bryan Inde
pendent School District is offering
summer school at Lamar Elemen
tary to second through sixth graders
who are below grade level in read
ing or math.
Summer school runs from June 18
to July 27 and a child may attend
any of three sections: 8-10 a. m., 10
a.m. to noon or 1-3 p.m.
In addition to spending time in
the classroom, students will work
with computers to develop reading
and math skills. They will also par
ticipate in field trips, math contests
and reading clubs, and will get a
chance to cook snacks in the school
cafeteria.
Sammie Hollis, director of reme
dial programs for BISD, estimates
that 900 children will be ii
federally-funded program
summer.
To participate in the progn
child must be recommended!
remedial and homeroom tea
Recommendations are based
test given at the end of each s
year. Though parents may re
that their child be put in the
gram, it is not intended to ad
the children beyond their pr
grade-level, Hollis said.
Parents of eligible childrei
receive letters and registr
forms in the mail.
Free meals will not be o!
during summer school as the
during the regular school yeai
free bus transportation will be
able.
Hollis said the program has
a success, as many students
advanced in their reading and
levels and been promoted out(
program. She said many teal
have seen improvements it
children returning to their(
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