Through the last 16 weeks, the resources were eye-opener! There is no specific resources to proclaim as one eye-opening information. I crossed multiple resources on various topics that are equally important in promoting high quality early childhood education. What motivate me was discovering the co-enrollment model.
Co-enrollment model has a lot of potential in changing how we include or exclude the children with hearing losses within the early childhood education programs. Although this concept is relatively new, it provokes many thoughts such as will parents accept this idea, will early childhood education professionals be willing to take professional development courses or training to provide the resources in co-enrollment model classroom or program, and many more. Co-enrollment model, to me, is like an utopia that becomes a reality. My vision is to encourage social acceptance for all children and for high quality education being available for children with hearing losses, CODAs, and others who benefit from American Sign Language (ASL).
I inserted two images of my family and son, because we represent all of the parents across the communities in the United States and even across the world. We are parents who care and want the best for our son, who happens to be CODA (child of deaf adults). We make the educational choices for our children and that is always a challenging, especially ensuring that the programs offer high quality educators, high quality program, and many other available resources to support our child in developing skills, and master different tasks throughout the school years.
It has been a pleasure to be here and to share all exciting and dumbfounding information!
