Originally Posted by Cheri

I agree because for one take one good look at how Helen Keller learned how to sign and how to speak she made a remarkable break through in communication and she's deaf and blind.

Learning oral was tough, I did not play as much as other kids I spend summer at summer school for speech training, now I look at myself and how grateful that I've learned very good speech skills, it beats writing everything down on a notebook pad.

Children will miss out not only on a quaility of education but also on crucial life and communication skills if no speech skills.

Bi bi method is given a lesson in deaf culture and an identity that they can be proud of, but what is so proud of being deaf? Am I proud of being deaf, no but this is what been given to me and I accepted that..