The Importance Of Mainstream Education For The Deaf Community

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The Deaf community has to deal with the social unawareness from the hearing community. People who are affected by deafness may have trouble assimilating in educational institutions that consist primarily of hearing people. Many Deaf people have difficulty learning in mainstream school because teachers cannot communicate with them fluently and the educational methods are not for Deaf students.Schools for the deaf are very important for Deaf children to gain the ability to communicate and for socialization with other people with a common ground. Mainstream education is not completely unfair to deaf children but socialization is essential for a child's growth and without a common language, socialization can be limited.

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