So the children could look at the monitor and see the teacher and the captioning all at the same time. Then, we had the captioning transcribed into notes for the student, teacher, and parents. It also seemed to work well for kids with learning disabilities. Fundamentally, they're correct, but it was very disappointing because Palo Alto School District was on the cutting edge in technology and special education. I was hoping they would continue because it was the right thing to do.
Technology touches all our children's lives.
Those are bad odds because many parents are not up to it. It's really not about FAPE or IDEA, it's a civil rights issue. Just as districts were taking the position that captioning was not within FAPE a parent in another district filed and won a civil rights complaint. The Foundation is working hard to get this information out to other parents. Parents of deaf or hard of hearing children have to understand their choices.