Deaf Children in Public Schools: Placement, Context, and Consequences (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics)
By Claire L. Ramsey.
Description
As the practice of mainstreaming deaf and hard-of-hearing children into general classrooms continues to proliferate, the performance of these students becomes critical. This volume assesses the progress of three second-grade deaf students to demonstrate the importance of placement, context and language in their development. The book points out that these deaf children were placed in two different environments: with the general population of hearing students, and separately with other deaf and hard-of-hearing children. The study reveals that although both settings were ostensibly educational...
ISBN(s)
1563680629, 9781563680625
