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Originally Posted by flip
I am sure you would find it interesting to visit a true bi-bi program in person, as it seems you haven't? Sign, talk and speechreading is facilicated, and communicative skills is one of the advantages of bi-bi compared to oral or mainstream programs.
There are examples of earlier deaf bi-bi students that run companies with hearing employers, so I doubt their communication skills was limited by bi-bi. In their cases, it looks like their communicative skills was developed to it's maximum, as they had the opportunity to communicate in a rich environment with no language barriers.
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The problem as I understand it is that there are not many true bi-bi programs to visit. I also believe that there may be some good TC programs out there that facilitate the things you mention. I don't think anyone ever suggested that communication skills would be limited in a bi-bi program. At least I have not seen it in this thread. I also know that deaf people can be successful comming from varying educational methods.