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Establishing through-train SLCO system in Hong Kong

Do deaf children learn in the same way as hearing children? What are their educational needs? How does local educational system address their needs? What can frontline teachers do to provide adequate support to them? These may be the concerns of deaf people, parents of deaf children, educators and relevant professionals. In 2006, Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrollment (SLCO) Programme was established by the Centre for Sign Language and Deaf Studies of the CUHK, which could be an option to address the above questions. In this presentation, why this innovative experimental programme was set up in local mainstream schools, how it was implemented and its benefit to both deaf and hearing students from preschool to tertiary educational levels will be discussed.

Biography:
Chloe Ho is currently the senior project coordinator of the Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrollment (SLCO) Programme run by the Centre for Sign Language and Deaf Studies and the SLCO Community Resources. She graduated with the Master Programme in Linguistic at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Master Programme in Deaf Education at Rochester Institute of Technology in the US. She was an experienced secondary school teacher and has been a sign bilingual teacher teaching in the co-enrolled classrooms for over ten years. Apart from daily teaching, she also participates in sign language interpretation and teacher training in local and overseas tertiary educational institutes to promote sign bilingual education in mainstream and special schools.