Originally Posted by Boult

Mainstream or "Deaf School?" Both! Say Deaf Students (feature from Perspectives: in Education and Deafness; November-December 1997 issue --a publication of Pre-College National Mission Programs)

http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGO/096.pdf

Raising Deaf Kids

deafedcomparison - Residential or Mainstream?Â*Deaf Schools vs Hearing Schools

Just throwing links in here...

of course isolations do occur in mainstreaming way in the past when there were no IEP or such. for example;
Amazon.com: Alone in the Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School (Deaf Lives Series, Vol. 1): Gina A. Oliva: Books

But it's not 1950's today...