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Originally Posted by jillio
School districts are already making every effort to keep children in their home schools, even if it means that the child will be the only deaf child in a sea of hearing students and without proper accommodation. The CI ha been seen and touted as a way to accomplish this, thus reducing the cost of educating the deaf student. Sad.
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Very good observation about gas prices affecting education.
I posted a question about the emotional experience of mainsteaming in a sea of hearing kids... Would you please post a reply? I am trying to get a rounded look at the issue before I write my paper. I could just do what everybody does and quote the EXPERTS, but they don't seem to address the issues of emotional aspect. I only found one on line article about the isolation problem. There solution was to force more interaction between deaf and hearing students... seemed to be sidestepping the real issue. I don't know how to conduct a real survey, and not sure if it would be recieved well, but I think it is an issue to be discussed civily, because even the gas prices are going to affect these issues... Pretty concerning subject.