Extended Annotated Bibliography

Snell, L. (2011, December 15). The Price Tag for Schools for the Deaf. Retrieved August 2, 2015.

This article is written by Lisa Snell, the director of Education at the Reason Foundation. She discusses how the cost of attendance only allows for approximately 800 students to be educated per year, with over 1200 deaf students left uneducated there due to poor economic standing. Her main two schools she chooses to discuss are located in California - within close proximity to Arizona, making this article relevant to both my topic and my peers who will be reviewing it. She goes on to explain how low the English Language Arts scores are for those who do attend these private schools in California, stating that they are not well balanced with hearing and non-hearing to be able to be proficient in English Arts the same as the state average requires to meet "expectations". She concludes with the fact that new funding in public schools allow for more advanced attention being given to those students who qualify. She says that there are higher test scores in English Arts proficiency in the public school systems than in the private education choices. This article is very helpful in providing both an opinion on private and public school systems, answering my question about cost (at least in the state of California), and in helping to show who is arguing for each side of the debate.

Public School Classrooms – The Least Restrictive Environment? (n.d.). Retrieved August 2, 2015.

This article argues against Lisa Snell in the fact that they suggest DHH (Deaf or Hard of Hearing) students should not be taught in public schools because they don't receive the resources they need and the attention with a ToD (Teacher of the Deaf) that they require. Their main issue is that the students only sometimes get one on one time with a ToD, some not at all, and that these students struggle when there is a language barrier between themselves and the teachers and their peers. While the public school system is usually looked at as being less restrictive, it is not given the proper budget or resources to help these students the way they need. This is helpful towards my article because this contradicts some points made in my previous article. It also helps show the public school side of the argument and costs. 

Redeafined: The Benefits of a Mainstream Education for Deaf Students. (2013, March 23). Retrieved August 2, 2015.

This article is aimed at showing the benefits of mainstreamed education for DHH; how public schools provide a "real-world experience" that helps them practice and maintain a life in the real world (the hearing world). The authors at Redeafined Magazine emphasize the benefits of a public education, including more extra curricular resources, a real-world practice, higher reading, writing, and English standardized test scores, and that these students can make friends who live near by instead of far away at private school areas only. This is a great article for my speech protest because while the past two articles have emphasized the negative effects of each type of school, they haven't taken a positive approach like this article does. Instead of listing all the negative aspects, this article emphasizes the benefits of one type over the other, allowing for a persuasive piece to unfold. 

Cohen, D. (n.d.). "'Inclusion' should not include Deaf Students" Retrieved August 2, 2015.

This article is written by Dr. Oscar Cohen, the Superintendent at a deaf school in New York. He speaks out about how public schools cannot supply a child with the proper tools and communicating abilities to feel comfortable and safe in their environment. He states his concern that DHH students in public schools are categorized in the group "disabled" students, which they are not, and that this limits their learning abilities and their self confidence. He also states that there have been an increase in standardized test scores among children who attend deaf schools which cannot be seen growing in public school DHH children. He does not support public schools as a proper education for DHH students. This article is highly important because it is the first article to speak out so strongly for private deaf schools for DHH students.