This digest uses a question-and-answer format to address some issues in the possible choice of a residential school for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The importance of the residential school experience in the context of Deaf culture is addressed, as are other issues such as characteristics of students attending residential schools and…

This digest uses a question-and-answer format to summarize basic issues about the inclusion of children who are deaf or hard of hearing in classrooms with normal hearing students. It briefly reviews the history of the inclusion movement and identifies two general positions in the debate: (1) that all students have the right to go to school with…

The report presents an overview on the status of appropriate placements for hearing impaired students. Information is presented in question and answer format on such topics as the definition and extent of hearing impairments, hearing aids, lipreading, speech difficulties of deaf children, sign language, psychological needs of deaf students, the…