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Originally Posted by Cheri
How can you say that about TC? If you really knew me, you would think twice for making a statement like that. Now I know how hearing parents must felt when they tried to tell some of you how their child does with what method they had chosen you find every flaws in that method. I just wanted all hearing parents to learn signs too with their deaf child, I don't care if they choose oral, I know how hard it is to learn to speak lip reading, but oral does help them with good speech and good lip reader, only a little problem they will have some diffculities.
What method won't have that diffculities?
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Cheri...oral deaf education resulted in my good speech and lipreading skills but I wouldnt want that for deaf/hoh children cuz of the language being used not being fully accessible for all deaf/hoh children. I openly accept its flaws even though I was raised with that approach.
Why should any child get partial access to the subjects being taught? That is like forcing blind people to read from books without brialle. It just doesnt make sense to do that in the educational setting where learning is critical. I dont get that some of you think that is ok to have some difficulties in the educational setting. Why is that ok?
Tell me, how can a teacher use SEE, ASL, spoken English, gestures all in one lesson for a classroom full of kids and expect all kids to understand him/her? In an one-on-one situation, that can work but doing that to a classroom of about 10 or so kids in one lesson? I would go crazy myself trying to organize my thoughts using all these different languages or methods.