ドイツ連邦共和国における聴覚障害児者の通常教育への統合 : その歴史およびミュンヘン大学研究プロジェクトの成果と展望

抄録

Since 1999, a research project on integration of children and adolescents with hearing impairments into mainstream education has been conducted at the University of Munich. This 10-year research period is the most detailed and comprehensive study nationwide on the integration of students with hearing impairments. To date, the project has completed 10 research modules. In the present article, a brief historical overview of the development of school integration in Germany is followed by a report on the results from 4 of the 10 modules, highlighting the situation of pupils with hearing impairments in regular schools, comments by peers without hearing impairments, and parents' experiences with their children with hearing impairments. Additionally, individual cases who transferred from regular schools to special schools following several years of school integration are described. The results suggest that a majority of children with hearing impairments who have been integrated into regular schools not only cope successfully but also demonstrate an increased effort and commitment to their studies, even though support measures for those children continue to be generally inadequate.