Mainstreaming does work if the school is well disciplined. Mainstreaming does work with children who can walk ,talk, and be quiet. Only ten percent of Autistics need to be institutionalized. Fifty percent of them are mainstreamed by first grade and outside of being little too quiet ,they do not draw any attention toward themselves. The other forty percent of Autistics do well if they have parents who tutor them and the school allows them to attend classes with their peers.
High functioning Autistics do not fair well when they are dumped in classes where the other students are out of control. In those cases, the Autistics are likely to pick up bad behavior patterns. Most kids do not do well in classes where there is verbal and physical abuse. Unfortunately, most of the children who act like apes are not retarded.
Do not flatter the people who are posting garbage about Autistics. If truth be told ,some of them were themselves recalcitrant bullies who made life hard for their teachers and other students. If truth be told ,their little darlings are the big ,fat bullies whom you do not want kid to end up sitting beside in class. In case you have not noticed despicable bullies give birth to despicable bullies.
“If the majority of the people posting thought jumping off a bridge was all right I suppose you would agree with them.”
Obviously, you have no idea what I was talking about in my post to another FReeper.