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Old 01-14-2008, 12:16 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by rockdrummer View Post
Interesting read. Even though it was written a while back much of it applies today. The controversy still exists. It also supports what I believe in that there is no panacea approach and that you have to treat each person as an individual.

Source: Options in Deaf Education-History, Methodologies, and Strategies for Surviving the System

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This sure was a nice article, covering a lot of trends in a short time. Very impressive, when we take in consideration that this is written by a new student of sign language. I could recommend this to parents for an overview, taking the above in consideration.

For example;

"Bi-Bi does not spend time working on audition or speech. In fact, “it is felt to be morally wrong to impose on deaf children a language they cannot acquire, this, spoken language.”(cited by a comitee of parents in Chicago). This policy can limit participation in hearing culture."

is totally wrong. You can quite often find state of the art speech training in bi-bi programs.
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