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Grumpy Old Deafies
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Monkhouse Deaf Support Centre Closes
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:32pm UTC
GOD was quoted in The News Guardian last week, around the closure of Monkhouse Deaf Support Centre, Tyneside. The decline is down to: More and more parents of deaf children are choosing normal schools causing a drop in the number of people using the centre, the council claims. The use of labelling such as "normal schools", is derogatory and can be standard terminology in education. In fact, much of education terminology is littered with terms that really need to be thrown in the bin yesterday, but that's a post for another day. For instance, I attended a mainstream school for my entire schooling, but it doesn't give me or anyone else the green light to label ...