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Old 11-26-2007, 10:51 PM   #28 (permalink)
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How is that from their point of view?
The reseachers wanted to know "how severe was their (coda) language delay. How much were their family experiences like those of children of alcoholics?" One coda has surmised this: "Wounded fledglings raised by wounded birds." The researchers "have rarely allowed these codas to tell their own stories."

I really thought the comparison with an alcoholics family is sickening. We know that ASL really improves the language of a deaf kid or a hearing kid.
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