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Eastern Kentucky University

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The Educational Experience Of Students Who Are Deaf And Hard Of Hearing In Kentucky, Emory Bell Jun 2019

The Educational Experience Of Students Who Are Deaf And Hard Of Hearing In Kentucky, Emory Bell

Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) require much specialized instruction in order to successfully learn in school. Through my course of studies in the Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing program at Eastern Kentucky University, I was made aware that there is a shortage of teachers of the deaf in Kentucky, and that as a result many children who are DHH are being taught by teachers without specialized DHH certification. This led to me to wonder just what the educational experience of a child who is DHH in the state of Kentucky looked like. Through …