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Originally Posted by flip
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.
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"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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The problem as I understand it is that Bi-Bi programs are not that prevelant and many of the ones that consider themselves to be Bi-Bi are not really comprehensive programs but more of token programs. I'm not sure about the morality of getting deaf individuals to speek. What I know is the options for communication between deaf and hearing is limited. Speaking, writing or some electronic means (tty, sidekick etc) are the only choices that I know of. It would seem to me that one would want to have all options available at the least.