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Inclusion and Deafness, linking the family, school and community

Author: Elina Lehtomaki
Published: EENET
Countries: Tanzania,Mozambique
Date published: 01 January 2000

Paper synopsis

This article focuses on the author’s experience of promoting the education of deaf children in Tanzania and Mozambique over the past 10 years. It is suggested that the family, school and community need to share the ideas and goals of education and inclusion in order to create the necessary conditions for community level inclusion. If children do not experience inclusion in the family and community, then inclusion in the local school is very limited.

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