To mainstream a student means to place the student with any degree of hearing loss in a public school, where most of the students are hearing. An inclusion classroom is a classroom within the public school where the class is made up of hearing and deaf students. According to Osgood (2005), "inclusion embodies the right of every child to be educated in a common setting where his or her individual needs and those of all other children are addressed completely and effectively."
Many inclusion classrooms include a teacher, an interpreter, hearing students, and deaf students.
Books cited in this post:
The History of Inclusion in the United States by Robert L. Osgood
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