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It's funny to see hearing people to learn American Sign Language, why did they want to learn? Because they want to communicate with deaf people. Now, many deaf people are getting Cochlear Implants. Reason? Because they want to become hearing/able to speak, which they will hurt ASL culture.
My point is in the future hearing people learn ASL, but they will have nobody to communicate ASL with since many deaf people are able to hear/speak with CI's on. BUT for those deaf people will keep ASL culture, and my concern is to look at statistics, how many deaf people in deaf schools right now compares to 1980's. In the future, few deaf people ... more hearing people meaning ASL will not be around that much in the general besides the deaf community.
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