0 the process of making something start to be considered normal: --
1 the act of including people who have particular difficulties or needs in the same schools or places of work as everyone else: --
Proper funding for the mainstreaming of children with behavioural problems was never made available.
2 the process of becoming accepted as normal by most people: --
The mainstreaming of social networking continues.
The notion of mainstreaming grew out of 1975 federal legislation aimed at making high-needs students' environments less restrictive.
Politicians have begun to question whether the policy of mainstreaming - and thereby closing special schools - has gone too far.
What we are witnessing is the mainstreaming of pornography.
The mainstreaming of vegetarianism and healthy lifestyles placed new demands on the market.