
Our education concept is:" caring, respect and education training is co-independent and interlocked with each other.
The Famous Norway psychologist has ever said: ˇ°If you accept one person, you must accept his language. If you exclude someone's language, you exclude the person. For language is inherent part of a person."
A Taiwan scholar further put forward "In order to respect deaf people, please communicate with them in their language (hand language). If you cannot, try to learn it."
Huge amounts of study results on human linguistics prove: "It is in the natural communication environment, rather than the systematic class education, that people acquire their first language." That's why deaf children love hand language most and only.
If our teacher could not adapt such reality, how could we talk about "love and respect" our students? Let along carry out effective educational training.
Our education concept is by no means a form. It originates from human's instinct and nature, deeply rooted in the heart of linguistics and psychologists. Therefore, it must be effective.
Characteristic of bilingual language: Bilingual Features News...
Jiujiang concord deaf school is the first and only deaf school which makes every endeavor to carry out "concept of bilingual education". Our school asserts treating deaf children from the point of society culture, giving enough human care, respecting deaf children's language acquisition custom, and complying with the needs of their educational training. And we advocate putting the hand language as their first language which has to master, explaining textbook by sign language in everyday teaching, teaching deaf children Chinese (most in written language) with the methods of teaching a second language. The biggest brightness of the new deaf education concepts from the western in the early 1980s is that they defined the "deaf and use sign language" as a cultural phenomenon. They teach the deaf children with deaf nature sign language and Chinese to make them master the two languages gradually, exchange between the two freely, and become the bilingual language balancer which can live happily between the deaf and main society.
After 6 years' teaching practice on "Bilingual Education", Jiujiang Concord Deaf School profoundly realizes that the development of natural hand language has become essential for the comprehensive development of deaf children. Only the developed hand language system can help deaf children learn effectively. From this point of view, Jiujiang Concord Deaf School not only attach great importance to the deaf teacher incorporated in teaching practice, but also employ social deaf people who master the natural hand language to join our teaching in recent years, aimed at creating sign language environment beneficial for the learning and living of deaf and hearing teachers and students in our school. What's more, we also play great emphasis on the guidance of nature hand language for the low-grade deaf children and strict exam of newly coming hearing teachers. Even Teacher Wangdie, famous bilingual education practitioner in fabricated world, is quite impressed by the unique bilingual education environment originated from it, and said:" This is a phenomenon worth of our deep thinking in special education circle."