Thread: Is ASL Fading Away or Not?
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Old 12-26-2007, 06:14 PM   #152 (permalink)
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Bill 118 is not forbidding the families to learn ASL, but it reads that the government funding for the learning ASL has been pulled.

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If a family is interested in a cochlear implant for their young Deaf child in the IHP program and they simultaneously want ASL exposure for their child. IHP will not fund the ASL services
http://www.chs.ca/pdf/Bill_118_Submission.pdf
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....Cued Speech has substantial data showing that it enables deaf children to attain competency in English at the level of hearing students grade by grade. I know of no other system that enables this to happen.... As more and more young deaf persons achieve academically because of this system, deaf leaders will need to re-examine their options.
- Dr. Edward C. Merrill, Jr. past president of Gallaudet
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