About integration in mainstream education, yeah, you have three different arrangements. Intense, medium, and light.
I didn't think it was a good idea to send a deaf child to regular education with an interpreter.
I experienced that myself. My second daughter is deaf and went to a hearing school.
That was because Effatha closed down. That's why she started going to a hearing school.
And she had an interpreter in class.
But there were too many triggers.
There were 30 hearing children and she was the only deaf one.
The teacher didn't pay attention to my daughter. In the breaks she would also just be looking around.
Sometimes she'd chat a little with the interpreter. But when they left she'd be alone again.
Children would be in groups, but she wouldn't fit in.
Then she'd just be on her phone. She didn't really have contact with others.
She did that for six months and then it just broke her down.
Physically she was exhausted. We went to discuss it a few times, but then she stopped and stayed home.
She fits better at a deaf school. Since she started going to a deaf school she has been doing much better again.
Now she's even a level higher. That's nice.
That's why I think that deaf children should go to a deaf school.