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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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Like Jillo said, the BiBi philosophy is relatively new and a few deaf schools are starting to adopt it. My brother works at deaf school and he tells me that it still is a TC program. Maybe that was the case for your friends who graduated from the Deaf schools.
Did they have a full access to language since birth or were they introduced to ASL later on after "trying" out other methodologies?