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While I attended mainstream schools, I also attended a deaf school during my early school years. The excellent services that the current deaf students now receive are because of efforts taken during my first year at Harvard. Because I needed a sign language interpreter, the Student Disability Resource Center hired Kellie M. Stewart on the terms she would be a full-time interpreter and coordinator for deaf students. Because of Stewart, the quality of services for deaf students at Harvard has since been exceptional. I am glad to know that the road I paved for other deaf students has made...
Citing obstacles in both schools for the deaf and mainstream schools, Hoffmeister says that only the most talented deaf student can succeed. He likened the situation to that faced by minority children in inner-city schools...
Because students who attend such schools areusually first schooled in American Sign Language,and only secondly in English, the student'sEnglish skills tend to be less developed than theymight be in a mainstream school...
...Mainstream Schools: Socially Limiting...
Though she finds deaf culture to be a "verylimiting perspective," Fong acknowledges thatstudents who have never gone to mainstream schoolsmight not want to come to a college with anenvironment like Harvard...