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From: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: MAINSTREAMING
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Date: 16 May 91 15:37:59 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Hi Vixen,

I'm happy for you and all your good news.  The new Ultratec unit,
the large display, and the college arrangement with Dee Follette.
Congratulations.  BTW, I understand that the funding for the
California Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program is up
for renewal in your legislature.  Maybe you should write your
State Senator and/or Assemblyperson and tell them how important
this is.  Ask them to support AB 1430 (Moore).

 V> I have been reading and following the debate concerning the
 V> matters of mainstreaming and residential schools or "separate
 V> classes."  The one fact of matters that seems to come shining
 V> through, at least to me, and irregardless from which position
 V> of debate, is that depending on all of the variables, different
 V> things work for different people.

You are so right there, Vixen!  It's different strokes for different
folks, and tragic that more do not recognize that fact.  We have
ample evidence that what works fantasticalIy well for one may not
work at all for another.  I deplore the "one-size-fits-all" mentality
that is evidenced by a few of the more prolific posters in ST.

The real problem is, where do hearing parents of a deaf child turn
for advice.  Most everyone professionally involved in deaf education
seems to feel that their way is the ONLY way to go.  Why someone
here was even complaining about the need to make individual education
plans for each of the deaf students.  Arghhhhh. . .

... Jack.

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