Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the deaf mainstream experience

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Little is known about the effects of normalisation of deaf people in mainstream or oral/aural education, but this book alleges growing evidence that deaf people are struggling despite the best intentions of hearing professionals to integrate them.

In this collection of individual, often moving, accounts from a diverse selection of deaf people who have been ‘mainstreamed’ or orally educated, there emerges a common desire that the messages presented will be used to influence the educational system to one that is Sign-bilingual for all deaf children.