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Originally Posted by Cheri
TC setting in a public school is mainstream for sure you were not in the mainstream because you would have to hear in order to be an interpreter. Maybe you were working in special education classroom with a small group of deaf students.
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I would have to hear in order to be an interpreter? What do u mean by that?
That one TC program had a self-contained class of 13 deaf/hoh from kindergarden to 8th grade. Depending on their academic level, some of them went to the mainstreamed classes for some classes and then return to the self-contained classes. There were interpreters. I worked with the kids both in the mainstreamed and in the TC class. None of these kids had special needs..they were all severly language delayed so all 13 of them were together for Language Arts and taught the same lesson. It was a crappy program in my opinion.
I also worked with deaf kids who were mainstreamed meaning they were placed with hearing kids all day. Those kids were not in a TC program..they were in an oral-only classes and some of them had interpreters and some of them did not.
I have worked in hearing classes too.