Sign Bilingual and Co-enrollment Education for Children with Cochlear Implants in Madrid, Spain
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In this chapter we will describe the novel educational experience offered to deaf children in Madrid, Spain. In order to understand the main characteristics of this educational intervention we will briefly set-out the educational, linguistic and social context of our country in the second half of the 1990s: including an emphasis on oral language, a mainstreaming policy, limited research in sign language but an increasing involvement of the Deaf community in schools. Following this brief introduction we will focus on the community of Madrid. We will describe the current teaching practices in 4 schools .The teaching philosophy in these schools is termed “Sign Bilingual and Co-enrolment Education” meaning deaf and hearing children learn in both Spanish and Spanish Sign Language classrooms together.
En: M. Marschark, G. Tang, & H. Knoors (Eds.). "Bilingualism and bilingual deaf education" (pp. 368-395).