[Integrationism versus nonconformism. Two slogans and two programs]

The problem concerning the alternative between integration and segregation can be understood in a more adequate manner as the alternative between integrationism and nonconformism. Deafness serves as a paradigmatic model which helps to understand that, in order to warrant a healthy emotional development, the child and adolescent need to enjoy from both opportunities: raising of specially characteristic features as well as promoting common social patterns. --Fully integrated education is therefore as insufficient as is a just segregated one.