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How does ASL teach English if the syntax is different. That is what we teachers do...
If u are saying that is impossible, I have many well-educated friends who grew up learning ASL first who have excellent English skills.
Pls...it is either get partial access to language and struggle to develop literacy skills or have full access to language and transfer that to develop literacy skills. I choose the latter.
Speech is critical too but we are realistic...not all deaf children will be able to develop speech skills and we would never ever continue to force children who have shown that they are struggling with developing speech skills. We can use the extra time for education and those who are capable of developing speech skills still continue to work on it.
Why would we want our students to spend as much time working on speech skills during the day when we could be teaching them how to apply their critical thinking skills, knowledge and so on?
Why the emphasize on speech? I thought having education, knowledge, and literacy skills were the most important? Yes, deaf people without speech skills can apply those in real life.
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~Shel~ 
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