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Article: The visual experience: mainstreaming hearing-impaired students into the artroom.
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- School Arts
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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The list of questions that arises when a hearing-impaired student is mainstreamed into a regular art class certainly suggests that there are some complicated issues involved: * How will we communicated? Will I be burdened by extra work? Will other students not getting enough of my time and attention? Should I evaluate hearing-impaired students' work by the same criteria I use for my other students?
Proper planning and implementing support systems for teachers and students, however, can make everyone a winner. The artroom is a natural place to start since in it we rely heavily on the sense of sight.
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