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Originally Posted by loml
If there is an audist attitude here it is YOU!
SEE is used as a tool to improve literacy skills, skills sorely lacking with ASL.
I find this very bazzar.... why is it that you wish future generations of deaf/hoh continue to be dependant on other people to communicate effective with non-ASLers?
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Maybe should't comment, but will. SEE is not used to promote literacy skills. It is the hearing world's invention, because of such trouble to learn ASL. First tried Oralsim--did not work! Then come up with SEE. cued speech, all other ways to make English visable. English is not manual language. It is different language. Use ASL to teach Eglish, then literacy improves. When Deaf schools used ASL to teach English, Deaf students much more educated. You wouldn't change Spanish to teach English to Spanish people.
Why change ASL just to teach English? SEE, Pidgin, all other forms of English sign are inventions of the hearing world and the hearing world's attempt to tell Deaf how they are supposed to be, and what language they are supposed to use. And, by the way--I'm hearing. I went into Deaf community when my son was 2 years old, and said, please teach me your language so I can communicate with my son. Please show him what it is to be a Deaf adult. My son went to Deaf school with Deaf teachers. Because that is as much his family as I am. That is what he needs to be happy with himself. I am still learning much about ASL and Deaf communtiy after 18 years. But what they have taught me is much more valuable than anything the hearing 'experts" tried to tell me my son needed. And by the way, Sweetmind--love your signature. So true!