Originally Posted by ismi

Jillio, why not restrict your fighting the good fight to places where it's actually relevant? A post about cued speech is not always about oralism, childhood education, or literacy, loml's politics/pedagogical philosophy notwithstanding.

As an adult who's playing with CS, this list is quite useful for practicing cues! Nothing at all to do with "the fight against oralism when applied to language acquisition issues, deaf education, and literacy concerns." After all, I think you would take a similar opposition to Deaf children being taught PSE (rather than ASL) as a native language - but I doubt you'd reply with this much zeal to posts about adult use of PSE (hearing people, late/progressive deaf, etc) .

I guess what I'm saying here is this: there are political posts about CS, and their are posts about the mechanics of it. While the latter may be motivated by the former, that doesn't mean that they're not interesting in their own right, and it would be nice if people could read them without having to wade through the same damn arguments that are endlessly rehashed in the political posts, regardless of how they feel about the merits of those arguments. I - and I suspect I'm not alone in this - avoid those, because I know what the discussion will be. But these other posts still have the potential to be interesting. So unless cued speech itself is inherently flawed in ways that have nothing to do with oralism, language acquisition, and literacy ... please.