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Originally Posted by jillio
I don't wish future generations to be dependant. I want them to be independant, just as hearing are independant. To do that, they must have language skills. LANGUAGE, NOT SPOKEN LANGUAGE< NOT VERBAL LANGUAGE!
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I agree that deaf children need to have language skills, however,
you cannot dictate to parents what method
they choose for their child.
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All studies show that deaf kids of deaf parents perform better in school and also socially. Why? Because they developed LANGUAGE early and naturally through parents use of ASL. Who does worse in school and socially? Deaf kis, hearing parents. Why? NO LANGUAGE!
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Language delay for any child creates its challenges. Your solution for this is what exactly?
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Try to force to use spoken language.
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The use of the word force is getting quite monotonous.
Parents and proffesionals incorporate methods that they believe will work. Undeniably, for some it does.
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Parents refuse to learn ASL.
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ASL
is difficult to learn, as is English. The dynamics of every family are different. I would not aggree with your choice of word here: refuse.
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Kids are language delayed, and it affects their abilities to think, to judge their world, to make friends, to develop an identity and be happy with who they are, to be proud of themselve, to feel a part of something.
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I fully support deaf children having the language of their family as quickly as possible for inclusion and communication.
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You seem to think that VERBAL is better than SIGN.
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You obviously do not know me very well.
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Not true. Both are equal. But verbal language is for hearing people, and sign is for Deaf people. That is why deaf children who are never exposed to ASL will make up home signs. It is their natural language.
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The choice of method, for communication, imo, should be an informed family decision. There needs to be a freeflow of information regarding all methods presented by unbiased individuals, who are not trying to guilt the family into a process that can/does lead indubitably to literacy skills that are less than that of their hearing peers.
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I personally find ASL to be a beautiful expressive language.
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I agree.
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There are some things I can say in ASL that I can't say in English, because they look right in ASL, but don't sound right in English.
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Interesting.
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My point is, language is necessary for independance. Not English, but language.
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Language
is one of the life skills for independance, but having ASL as your only attainable language does
not make deaf children independant. imo