Toward Effective Public School Programs for Deaf Students

This text translates a tradition of research and data into useable recommendations and possible courses of action for organizing effective public school programmes for deaf students. Contributors address the essential issues surrounding the placement of deaf children in public schools. Examining various options for providing this education - including the highly controversial practice of main-streaming - the editors base their study on one of the largest and longest-running studies ever of public school programmes for the deaf. They elucidate major concepts such as "least restrictive environment", and "free and appropriate education", as well as describing various models for thinking about the relationship between the deaf child, his or her family, peers and the public school. This text is appropriate for pre- and in-service special education teachers and administrators.