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Originally Posted by jiro123
To answer your question, Meggie... Yes I think it's good idea to be on mainstream because we live in real world where it's hard enough to survive. We (the disabled people) need to learn how to get along with mainstream and to function with them. Yes it is hard enough when we're in schools that have ignorant people, bullies, or administrators who are not very helpful.
All my life - I was in public schools. I just graduated from state college as well. My parents fought constantly with school boards for accommodations. In my high school, the school didn't have enough budget for new accommodation since I don't know ASL. The secretary of NJ education department (actually I'm not exactly sure of his position but he's responsible for budget approval) was extremely gracious enough to come down to have a talk with me. Trenton (state capitol) is pretty far! After 5 min meeting, he approved the budget for my accommodation. Back in 90's, things were pretty difficult but it gets easier in 2000's. Most schools are very willing to provide you every accommodations they can without question. I've been to 4 different colleges for summer programs and each was able to provide accommodation immediately without question. Yes there are some you may encounter that are very unwilling or provide you mediocre service. You just gotta fight for it and demand it! Just look at my avatar and that's the game face you gotta put on to people who do not want to help you.
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So u think mainstreaming is ok even it means putting a deaf childrebn in a very restrictive environment where they dont have equal access to the curriculm as their hearing counterparts do? At the Deaf schools, language is accessible to ALL deaf children at ALL times no matter where they are at in school. To me that makes for a rich linguistic environment for deaf children that they most likely wouldnt have gotten by being mainstreaming. I sure hell didnt! I grew up always getting the info way after my heairng peers did which put me at an automatic disadvantage and I was always trying to keep my head above waters. Instead of learning how to function "normally", I was labeled as socially delayed. Well, of course cuz I didnt have full access to everything so I had to learn after my hearing peers did. It really sucked cuz I am the kind of person who wants to have access to information independently not having to depend on hearing people for it.