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Old 12-23-2007, 06:56 PM   #92 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Cheri View Post
Parents will naturally want their child to be as much like themselves as possible and will probably choose oralism, Most of us know that for fact because we have hearing parents, What Banjo stated was 100 percent correct-- You must walk a mile in another person's shoes before you can understand what it means to be that person. Only deaf people understand what it means to be deaf because deaf people know the full communication access and quality for themselves.
Exactly. Which is why it makes perfect sense: if you want to know what it is to be a deaf child, ask a deaf adult.
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