Deaf and Special Education is a complex field of study and plays a crucial role in deaf children's development. There are a number of choices in the field such as the residential school, the day school and the public school placements. One must look at the individual student to determine the best placement. The "least restrictive environment" (LRE) is interpreted by some to mean placement in a public school setting. However, for some individuals, this placement may be the "most restrictive environment". The public school placement has evolved from the mainstreaming movement and is now called "inclusion". In the public school setting, support services such as note-takers and interpreters are usually provided. In addition, there are communication options schools usually adopt such as the auditory-verbal, bilingual-bicultural, cued speech, oral method, acoustic method, Rochester method, speechreading (lipreading), manual sign languges (PSE, ASL, Signed English, Signing Exact English), sign supported speech (simultaneous communication) and total communication
