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Originally Posted by Cheri
Ok I do have a question before I ask some questions I am not criticizing anyone, I have a few deaf friends who do not speak had been to residential school where ASL was their primary language, they have very poor English skills and language delay, I'm not so sure what program it was, so I can't say its the bi bi program, my question is why their English writing skills match their signs of ASL, why has the residential school failed many deaf children? Is it because their first language was ASL and not enough speech was taught?
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Here's a few reasons for this.
Poor education system. (My school was like this. The system was messed up and as results we suffered.)
They learned ASL far too late at this stage. (Best time to learn language is when you are born, not 5 or 6 years old.)
No motivation. (I remember I was the only one out of my class that really tried to do homeworks, studied, etc. and yet none of them seem to try. They blamed school when they did nothing to help themselves as well.)
They come from poor family background. (Can you really focus at school if you were abused or neglected by your own family member?)
That's only thing I can think of right now. I am sure there's more reasons for what you have asked.