Expectations of parents with hearing impaired children at inclusive schools

Abstract

The results belong to a substudy of a comprehensive research program launched in 1999 at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. The substudy reports on the experiences and expectations of parents of hearing impaired children and adolescents attending integrative/inclusive schools, in the form of questionnaires completed by these parents. The results highlight a high degree of contentment with the inclusive system on the one hand but also underline such problem factors as stress and discontentment experienced by other parents.