Hello! Hoping some people from the home Ed community have some thoughts to share, this is largely a professional interest question, as obviously, a persons accent doesn’t matter!
I’m a secondary school SENDCO and I work with quite a lot of students that have been home educated for a lot of their primary/KS3 time - often because their SEN hadn’t been well catered for or they struggled to be themselves “in the system”.
I’ve noticed that a large proportion of them speak with an American accent - is this because lots of the online schools/tutorials etc. are from the US? Or is it an anomaly at my school?! If your children do do it, does it bother you as parents? Or do people comment on it? Or assume they are American/have lived in North America?
I suppose, my professional interest is piqued because I’m aware that lots of students on the autistic spectrum are often prone to an Americanisation of their accents too - which could be a correlation I suppose due to the high numbers of SEN previously home schooled students I work with, but it certainly doesn’t account for all the previously home educated students I work with (of course, autistic spectrum conditions are very under diagnosed, but even so...) so, I am just curious!
Is this common?! Or is it an anomaly to my local area?!
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ooopsupsideyourhead · 09/06/2019 22:37
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