They do not enroll hearing students. Day classes are usually district or county run programs on public school campuses with hearing children. Instruction may range from self-contained classrooms with a teacher of the deaf to varying amounts of mainstreaming with regular classrooms. Resource rooms are a place for the child to receive additonal services from additional instruction in English or other academic subject areas to speech and language therapy. The child spends the majority of their time in a regular classroom.
Itinerant programs are for children who are placed in regular classrooms.
The itinerant teacher often works with a number of students at different school sites. This is only a general overview of the main placement options available to deaf children. There are many individual circumstances that influence what, if any, additional services may be provided to the child. Some children who are mainstreamed may or may not need services from speech and language therapists or educational interpreters. For more information see the methods page or the mainstreaming page.