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I would love to dare any of you to take my shoes and do my job for one month and try your beliefs on my students. I would love to know if your opinions would still remain the same or change.
I used to believe that all deaf children were better off being raised in an oral-only environment and that ASL interfered with their spoken language development. I also used to blame ASL for deaf people's poor literacy skills. I was proved WRONG on all counts BIG time. Now, I know all the issues and factors surrounding those concerns and realized that ASL is not to be blamed, that is for sure.
I just would love for some of you to experience teaching deaf children in different programs and try to teach them using the philosophies you believe in. I had to do a lot of hard self-analyzing on my values of educating deaf children..it was an eye-opener for me.
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~Shel~ 
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