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Originally Posted by R2D2
Sweden is an interesting example isn't it? It is bilingual but also apparently 90% of deaf children there have CIs. I wonder whether the attitude of the deaf community toward child implantation there is more neutral because they know that the learning of sign is mandated by law both for the child and the parents?
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I think so, because their policy addressses CI as an assistive tool, and not as a way to promote and oral philosophy and assimilation into hearing culture. That is the biggest complaint of the deaf community here in the states. That CI is not used as an assistive devise in recognition of the continuing deaf status of the child.