Deaf learners' experiences in Malaysian schools: access, equality and communication
Abstract: The Government of Malaysia has embraced international policy guidelines relating to disability equality, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Its aim is to ensure that 75% of children with disabilities are included in mainstream classrooms by 2025 as part of a wider agenda to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities. Including deaf children on an equal basis in the linguistically diverse, exam-oriented Malaysian school system is an ambitious and complex task given the difficulties they face in developing effective language and communication skills. The data presented here are taken from a larger study which explored teachers', head teachers', parents', and children's experiences of inclusion through in-depth interviews in three Malaysian schools. The study design was informed by a framework developed in the UK to guide best practice of educating deaf children in mainstream schools and focused specifically on the learni
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Social Inclusion ; 6 (2018) 2 ; 46-55
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Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2018
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10.17645/si.v6i2.1345
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57371-7
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:28 AM CEST
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Associated
- Miles, Susie
- Khairuddin, Khairul Farhah
- McCracken, Wendy
Time of origin
- 2018
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