To Stakeholders, Organizations, Agencies, and Members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community:
For more than 50 years, Gallaudet University’s School Psychology Program has prepared professionals to serve deaf and hard-of-hearing children, youth, and their families. Its graduates have gone on to work in residential schools for the deaf, day programs, public and private schools, charter schools, mainstream educational settings, and other programs across the country. This specialized preparation matters.
Gallaudet University is currently conducting a university-wide academic transformation process, and the School Psychology PsyD Program has been recommended for discontinuance.
We believe this recommendation deserves careful consideration, not only in terms of the program’s internal metrics, but also in terms of its national impact on the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community and the children and families who depend on appropriately trained professionals.
As faculty of the School Psychology Program, we are asking you, our colleagues, partners, alumni, organizations, agencies, educators, families, and members of the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community, to make your voice heard.
We need as many people from diverse backgrounds and positionalities who are connected to the larger Deaf/Hard of Hearing Community to sign our petition which sends a strong reminder to Gallaudet that our institution’s primary mission is to serve the larger community of which deaf and hard of hearing children and their families make up a large percent. Without our program there will no longer be available in the years to follow, school psychologists with specialized training and the cultural and linguistic competencies to work effectively with these children and their families.
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The loss of culturally and linguistically trained school psychologists would have severely damaging and far-reaching consequences that vastly outweigh any cost savings from closing the training program.
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To Stakeholders, Organizations, Agencies, and Members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community:
For more than 50 years, Gallaudet University’s School Psychology Program has prepared professionals to serve deaf and hard-of-hearing children, youth, and their families. Its graduates have gone on to work in residential schools for the deaf, day programs, public and private schools, charter schools, mainstream educational settings, and other programs across the country. This specialized preparation matters.
Gallaudet University is currently conducting a university-wide academic transformation process, and the School Psychology PsyD Program has been recommended for discontinuance.
We believe this recommendation deserves careful consideration, not only in terms of the program’s internal metrics, but also in terms of its national impact on the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community and the children and families who depend on appropriately trained professionals.
As faculty of the School Psychology Program, we are asking you, our colleagues, partners, alumni, organizations, agencies, educators, families, and members of the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community, to make your voice heard.
We need as many people from diverse backgrounds and positionalities who are connected to the larger Deaf/Hard of Hearing Community to sign our petition which sends a strong reminder to Gallaudet that our institution’s primary mission is to serve the larger community of which deaf and hard of hearing children and their families make up a large percent. Without our program there will no longer be available in the years to follow, school psychologists with specialized training and the cultural and linguistic competencies to work effectively with these children and their families.
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I support this petition because this decision affects more than just the program. It also affects Deaf, DeafBlind and hard-of-hearing people across the country, especially children and families who rely on trained professionals. I hope the people making this decision will look beyond the numbers and consider how it could affect the people and families who depend on these services.
The loss of culturally and linguistically trained school psychologists would have severely damaging and far-reaching consequences that vastly outweigh any cost savings from closing the training program.
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I support this petition because this decision affects more than just the program. It also affects Deaf, DeafBlind and hard-of-hearing people across the country, especially children and families who rely on trained professionals. I hope the people making this decision will look beyond the numbers and consider how it could affect the people and families who depend on these services.