Leahea Grammatico
Leahea Grammatico , also Leahea F. Grammatico (born December 3, 1927 in Indiana , † September 4, 1997 , in South San Francisco , San Mateo County , California ), was an American educator and pioneer of auditory-verbal education .
life and work
In 1967, Deaf teacher Leahea Grammatico and nine San Francisco Bay Area families founded the Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf (JWPOSD) nonprofit in Redwood City , California to promote the educational and developmental needs of deaf and hard of hearing children to support their families.
She became the director of the school and managed it until her retirement in 1991. During this time, she expanded the school's offerings with parent-babies, preschool, kindergarten and lower-grade schools and tutoring. It promoted a learning environment in which the residual hearing was used to the maximum and the development of spoken language communication through interesting, interactive and cognitive curricula. With the development of spoken language skills in small groups and daily individual therapy, in which the parents were also involved, the students gained self-confidence and motivation to learn.
In order to optimally strengthen the residual hearing of deaf children, Grammatico worked with a hearing aid company. She developed a master hearing aid, the audiometer, with which she could determine the individual hearing needs of each child, so that the hearing aid company could adapt the hearing aid specifically to the child. Together with innovative strategies to improve hearing, these children were able to learn a natural spoken language. Leahea Grammatico's program is an exemplary combination of listening, language and cognitive training.
Over time, the school has become an internationally recognized competence center for deaf toddlers. It is accredited with the State of California Department of Special Education and forms a teaching facility for students in various university programs. Today the school has one of the highest rates of children with bilateral cochlear implants .
In 2003, the Leahea Grammatico Family Center was built on the school campus for children who enroll in the school based on the newborn hearing screening program.
Honors
- 1974 Program of the Year Award for the excellent work of the Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf
- 1978 Who's Who of American Women
Publications
- Curriculum for the preschool deaf child , Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf , Washington DC 1974
- The Development of Listening Skills . Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf Washington DC 1974
literature
- Verena Mick: Speech-hearing-directed early support for hearing-impaired children. Speech language as a way of social integration into the hearing world . University of Klagenfurt , Austria. Diplomica Verlag, 2011, ISBN 3-8428-6250-4 (Chapter 4.4.3 The listening and thought training of Leahea Grammatico )
Web links
- Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf in Redwood City
- Project on Science, Technology and Disability
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf: History ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grammatico, Leahea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grammatico, Leahea Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Deaf Educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Indiana , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 1997 |
| Place of death | South San Francisco , San Mateo County , California |