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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 JW>  Morale: Though educated to be like the hearing, deaf children
 JW>  grow up to be deaf adults.

    Could be.  But at least they have the knowledge of how to deal with hearing
people.
   "Mainstreaming" isn't (in my opinion) suppose to mean that a deaf kid is
taught only hearing skills.  Its suppose to mean s/he is taught deaf skills
_along with_ hearing skills.  When I went to school (regular city school) they
had a special classroom for deaf and hard of hearing kids (who received
lipreading and speech training) for several periods and spent the rest of the
time in regular classes.  This is the way I believe it should be and my only
problem with my own schooling is that at that time the "experts" decided not to
teach sign language to the hard of hearing.

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