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Originally Posted by gnulinuxman
YES. Not all deaf people can learn to read lips perfectly. It depends on the person and the speaker. That is why I get so mad when people keep going on and on and on about how oralism is the "perfect solution". 
What's wrong with signing and writing?  |
Me too, I am fed up with them for lying to us about it.
Think about it, can u draw a picture perfect? I am not that great at drawing. It goes same with people who happened to have gifts in art, sports, music, etc.. Think about it , only few deafies who happen to have those gifts in learn how to read lips and speak well (not perfect), only handful of them. It made me mad when they said we can learn and speak well. I went to oral school for few years, remember one year of child abuse in that classroom and I could not go to my mommy and tell her what was happen in that classroom because I did not have that language develop yet. They teach us how to talk and read their lips more than learn in classroom to do math, writing, science, etc.. Delay me for few years and now it is too late. I am still far behind in hearing world.
When I finally learned sign language, it freed me from anger and isolated. I can not believe them, they try to tell us about how wonderful oralism is. What a lie.
I love sign language and many people are so fanastic with sign language. I have meet so many people out there who sign to me everyday. They love it and eager to talk to me.
Yes I agree there is nothing wrong with writing paper and sign language. U know it is easy for me to use hand gesture to spanish speaking customers (about 50 percents) in my community than me trying speak english to them cuz they do not understand english.