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Mainstreaming 30 Years Later

Jul 14, 2014deafinprisonorg1 CommentUncategorized#FreeFelix, #JusticeForFelix, #Keep ASL In Schools, #StopHearingLossBullying, Deaf Child, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Joanne Greenberg, Mainstreaming, Sign language

By Joanne Greenberg Mainstreaming blew in during the ’70s and ’80s on the same wind as the breaking up of state mental hospitals, and with the same emotions; end the stigma, expand what is “normal” to include everyone. Differences will disappear and a better society will result. The “gesturing” and facial expressions shouldn’t be a

Promises Made, Promises Broken

Jan 7, 2013deafinprisonorgEditorials#JusticeForFelix, Deaf Culture, Deaf education, Deaf in Prison, Deaf Students, DeafInPrisonl.com, Deafness, Joanne Greenberg, Mainstreaming, Posting Mania - Year 2 Explodes

By Joanne Greenberg Part of the problem of Deaf low reading levels is due to insufficient education. Why should this be? The problem of low reading levels among the Deaf was supposed to have been solved 30 years ago, when mainstreaming was instituted to give Deaf kids an equal classroom experience, among their hearing neighbors

Poor Kim C*****

Aug 26, 2012deafinprisonorgEditorialsBitcoDavid, Colorado Department of Education, Deaf in Prison, DeafInPrison.com, Embryology, Hydrocephalus, Lipreading Mom, Mainstreaming, Marsha Graham, postaday

Yesterday, we posted a reblog from LipreadingMom about a Deaf child whose school refused to let him sign. That led to a conversation about mainstreaming, and I was reminded of a piece I did for school. *** Poor Kim C*****, her curse was not her dim brain, struggling to crank out a 60 IQ. Her