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Special Education Center of Hawaii history
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In 1971, the first class for the deaf-blind was organized via federal funds.
In 1972, after considerable discussion and deliberation by teachers, parents, and the school administration, the concept of “Total Communication” was officially adopted as the school’s mode of communication for the students.
In the summer of 1974, to reinforce this practice, under federal funds provided through the state’s Special Education office, a curriculum entitled, “Language Arts Curriculum Guide Incorporating Total Communication”, was developed by a cadre of teachers, administrator, and a parent.
In order to fully implement that curriculum, via parent-teacher association support, two positions for speech therapists were appropriated by the Legislature in 1974.
Two more positions for speech therapists were added to the school in 1977.
In 1981, the Senate instructed the Office of Education to submit a comprehensive report on Native Hawaiian education.
The Native Hawaiian Educational Assessment Project report, funded by the Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate and submitted to Congress in 1983, found that Native Hawaiians scored below parity in education and that these low achievement levels were directly related to cultural factors.
In June 1984, the largest class of 27 students graduated from the school.
In 1988, the SECOH budget is approximately $2,000,000 and the name is changed to the Special Education Center of Hawaii (SECOH).
This Act’s passage provided for the establishment of Papa Ola Lōkahi. It is important to note that the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act was also passed in 1988 due to the release of the E Ola Mau Reports, which was the first comprehensive study of Native Hawaiian health issues.
In response to Doctor Frisina’s suggestion, the Board of Education approved the incorporation of the statewide system to be relocated within Hawaii Center for the Sensory Impaired and renamed the site into Statewide Center for Students with Hearing and Visual Impairments in July 1989.
In 1989, Doctor Jane Kelleher Fernandes became the first Deaf woman in the United States to administer the school for the Deaf, which she served for five years as the director of the school.
This Act’s passage provided for the establishment of Papa Ola Lōkahi. It’s reauthorization in 1992 established the Native Hawaiian Health Care System and the Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program.
In January of 1997, the Education Council was formed, followed shortly thereafter by the formation of the Island Councils in February.
In 1997, the SECOH Diamond Head Campus is renamed to the Sister Agnes Jerome Murphy Founder's Campus.
The concept is supported in full by SECOH stakeholders and takes years of pre-planning before the first Community Center is opened in Waipahu in 2001.
SECOH ceases its Leeward Center operations and vacates the Waimano property on December 31, 2006.
Later, on July 1, 2009, the school was renamed to one of the original school names it had in the past, Hawai’i School for the Deaf and the Blind.
The Central Oahu Community Center is closed at the end of its lease term, May 2013.
Pearl City Community Center moves to the Consuelo Cottage at Child & Family Services Ewa campus from September 1, 2013.
SECOH’s Pathways Skills Center @ Diamond Head starts delivering service March 2015.
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