LEADER 04058nam 22006854a 450 001 9910953487903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-56368-325-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000032191 035 $a(OCoLC)70774234 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10081798 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101500 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11122144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101500 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10043410 035 $a(PQKB)10142947 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3010927 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3957 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3010927 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10081798 035 $a(BIP)16641417 035 $a(BIP)9490386 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000032191 100 $a20040301d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlone in the mainstream $ea deaf woman remembers public school /$fGina A. Oliva 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cGallaudet University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (230 pages) 225 1 $aDeaf lives 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-56368-300-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword: Alone and Together -- Introduction -- Author's Note -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Lessons from the Neighborhood -- 3. A Glimpse at Everyday Life -- 4. But Mom, I Hate Telling People! -- 5. Academically It Was Better Than a Deaf School, But Socially, Well . . . -- 6. Social Life in Adulthood: The Oasis -- 7. The Best of Both Worlds -- 8. Alone in the Mainstream Again: Constructing Inclusion -- 9. Children of Our Hearts: A Change in the Neighborhood -- Appendix: Research Methodology -- Notes -- Selected Readings and Resources. 330 $aWhen Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn't know that she was "different." If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to signal the next exercise, Oliva didn't react because she couldn't hear the music. So began her journey as a "solitary," her term for being the only deaf child in the entire school. Gina felt alone because she couldn't communicate easily with her classmates, but also because none of them had a hearing loss like hers. It wasn't until years later at Gallaudet University that she discovered that she wasn't alone and that her experience was common among mainstreamed deaf students. Alone in the Mainstream recounts Oliva's story, as well as those of many other solitaries. In writing this important book, Oliva combined her personal experiences with responses from the Solitary Mainstream Project, a survey that she conducted of deaf and hard of hearing adults who attended public school. Oliva matched her findings with current research on deaf students in public schools and confirmed that hearing teachers are ill-prepared to teach deaf pupils, they don't know much about hearing loss, and they frequently underestimate deaf children. The collected memories in Alone in the Mainstream add emotional weight to the conviction that students need to be able to communicate freely, and they also need peers to know they are not alone. 410 0$aDeaf lives. 606 $aDeaf women$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aDeaf people$xEducation$zUnited States 606 $aMainstreaming in education$zUnited States 606 $aDeaf people$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aDeaf people$zUnited States$vInterviews 615 0$aDeaf women 615 0$aDeaf people$xEducation 615 0$aMainstreaming in education 615 0$aDeaf people$xGovernment policy 615 0$aDeaf people 676 $a371.91/2/092 676 $aB 700 $aOliva$b Gina A$0874297 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953487903321 996 $aAlone in the mainstream$94382716 997 $aUNINA