04-05-2012, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by CreatedNat
We are getting early intervention, but most of it has been very much, if you choose to use ASL with your child, then you will damage her, so I have stopped using the early intervention programs here, because I don't like their philosophies, and I can give my daughter more right now then any early intervention program here can, I can give her a way to express herself.
And I know that no matter what, if we choose to implant Ally or not, she will be perfectly fine, but I just want her to have every possibility, all the same opportunities as her sister. I know that my children will be wonderful no matter what, but growing up, I had hearing aids, I still do, and they helped me navigate the hearing world. I don't want to isolate my daughter to only the Deaf world, I want her to be proud to be who she is, but I don't want that to be her only world.
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We had arranged for early intervention with an SLP before we met my daughter and found out she was deaf, and by luck of the draw ours was fluent in ASL , so long before we got a formal diagnosis of deafness, she was already meeting 3X a week with someone using ASL with her. In fact, her early intervention SLP was hired by her school as a communication specialist and still sees her in the halls all the time -- they are very close. We arranged for her early intervention to take place at a school for the deaf, so she had the benefit of group activities with other deaf kids, we could interact with other parents of deaf kids, and Li could learn ASL from Deaf teachers and by interacting with peers and -- later, after getting her first CI -- could work on catching up on spoken language. I think this is a big focus by Deaf ed centers -- maybe you can shift your early intervention services from your local catchment to a deaf school as we did?
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Marschark : "The evidence has convinced me, more than ever, that there is never going to be a "one size fits all" solution for deaf children either educationally or in language."
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