Some colleges run life-skills courses on campus but keep intellectually disabled kids away from their mainstream curriculum. Others offer a hybrid, allowing the students to audit regular classes and supplement their course load with skill-building seminars such as cooking and human relationships
I am more bothered by the HighSchool integration that has occured, one of the several highschools I atended had such a program for moderate to severarly mentaly and physical retarded children. Said students recived what amounted to publicly subsedized daycare under the guize of "regualar highschool" as they had to be segragated from normal students due to harasment (you only ever saw them going to and from the Caffateria in a gaggle with a handfull of cargivers directing them). It was quite obvious to me that these children were getting something on the order of 10 fold the resorces in staff and space alocated to a normal student (and this was one of the nicer schools in town so that probably 20 times national average). It seems to me that craming this admitedly nessary program into a public highschool rather then its own specialy designed school was detrimental to the students in it, a great waste of money on top of that and all a farce in the name of political correctness.
BEN K: I can easily imagine a deaf person doing all of thouse things and more, infact I dont have to "imagine" it at all because its a well know fact that its done all the time. Deafness is not at all similar to mental retardation.
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