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As the practice of mainstreaming deaf and hard of hearing children into general classrooms continues to proliferate, the performances of these students becomes critical. Deaf Children in Public Schools assesses the progress of three second-grade deaf students to demonstrate the importance of placement, context, and language in their development. Ramsey 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. Her incisive study reveals that although both settings were ostensibly educational, inclusion in the general population was done to comply with the law, not to establish specific goals for the deaf children. In contrast, self-contained classes for deaf and hard of hearing children were designed especially to concentrate upon their particular learning needs. Deaf Children in Public Schools also demonstrates that the key educational element of language development cannot be achieved in a social vacuum, which deaf children face in the real isolation of the mainstream classroom. Based upon these insights, Deaf Children in Public Schools f

Who reads Deaf Children in Public Schools: Placement, Context, and Consequences (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics)?

Author

Claire L. Ramsey

Publisher

Gallaudet University Press, 800 Florida Ave. N.E., Washington, DC 20002-3695 ($39.95)

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781563681981

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Social Science, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-16