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Social Interaction of Partially Mainstreamed Hearing-Impaired Children
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 127, Number 1, February 1982
- pp. 18-25
- 10.1353/aad.2012.1184
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The study examined social interaction of partially mainstreamed children with their hearing and hearing-impaired peers. It was found that hearing-impaired children interacted less frequently with peers and more frequently with teachers than did hearing children. Hearing-impaired students interacted more frequently with hearing-impaired peers. Mode of communication did not appear to affect frequency of interaction. It was concluded that physical proximity was necessary but not a solely sufficient condition for interaction and that opportunities for social interaction between hearing and hearing-impaired students needed to be carefully planned by teachers.