There are real advantages to children with disabilities attending residential schools. The schools are designed with the needs of deaf students in mind. One advantage of going to the school for the deaf is getting direct instruction from teachers trained in working with deaf students, instead of having to get information through an interpreter. The professional serv

"Scott, Scott" a young boy in an orange Illinois t-shirt shouted from the front row, but his small voice was drowned out by the cheers and noise coming from the crowd that filled the bleachers at Huff Hall. The routine was over as quickly as it began, and the sophomore from New Jersey dismounted with a smile, obviously pleased with his performance. His teammates came forward to congratulate him with handshakes and slaps on the back as Wetterling stepped off the mat. Scott Wetterling, one of Illinois' top performers, who had claimed the all-around title, along with individual victories in the high bar and vault at the meet against Nebraska, was able to hear the cheers from teammates and fans for only two of the events he performed in the Minnesota meet. Due to a form of hearing loss resulting from damaged hair nerves in his ear, Scott wears hearing aides to help magnify sounds. Scott has not let his disability prevent him from doing what he wants to do, participate in gymnastics with his teammates from Huff Hall High School. “I worked out four to five hours a day (at the club), the people I worked around were like my family. I liked how close everyone was,” he said about his teammates (Rowell).

In the 1970s, the schools, required to include students with disabilities in schools and not put them in institutions based on their color, race, or disability, began to “mainstream” disabled students by placing them in conventional public schools with their non-disabled peers, and sometimes in the same classrooms. Every disabled child between the ages of three to twenty-one became guaranteed a “free appropriate education” and protected against discrimination (“Learning Disabilities” 2). "I like to go to school very much but I get a little tired after a while," said Nguyen Van Truong, from Nguyen Viet Xuan Primary School. Truong lost one eye in a firecracker accident, so his vision has been poor for the last six years. Truong is one of 38 of the 69 children with disabilities in Ngu Kien village to attend a mainstream school, thanks to an inclusive education project supported by the Swedish charity Radda Barnen. Nguyen Bich Thao, who has been teaching inclusive education classes for five years at the school, said Truong’s parents used to feel too embarrassed and ashamed to send him to school (Thanh). When Truong’s parents saw the progress being made by the other students with

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