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Originally Posted by Cheri
I don't have a problem with that, but there are some deaf parents who has no spoken language, it can influence their hearing children's development of spoken language skills.
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In many of my friends' cases with their hearing children, I havent seen that happen cuz my friends dont completely isolate their children whether deaf or hearing from the hearing world.
As long has hearing kids acquire language fully by the time they are 5 whether it is in ASL, spoken English (or any other language), or both, they will be fine.
Despite having a hearing dad and being around hearing people who do not know sign language, my hearing son's spoken language development is behind his ASL skills but as long as he is able to express his thoughts, I am not worried. He has a speech therapist working with him but it seems that he is more comfortable using ASL. The speech teacher said that there was nothing wrong with that as long as he is acquiring language.