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Originally Posted by Bear
But what's wrong with using speech WHILE signing the lessons?
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Because that would make it Sim-com not ASL.
Also, we have other teachers who r deaf working too who have no speech skills themselves. Poprose that, they use their intelligible or nonextistent speech skills while teaching or just fire them cuz they don't have speech skills and that wud make us just as bad as those people who discriminate deaf people.
Also, the quality of education goes down cuz while sim-comming the teachers r using two languages stimulatenously and both languages or one becomes compromised giving the kids a poor model of language.
Not my idea of a good quality education. Besides, if I sim com, I have to concentrate hard on using both language therefore taking my ability to teach the lessons effectively away. Even the hearing teachers at my work say that they won't be able to teach engaging and insightful lessons if they sim-com. They feel that the quality of the lessons go up when using just one language not both.
At least one good thing about the oral-only approach that it uses one language at one time.
I prefer to choose an approach that gives high quuality education for all of our students whether they have speech skills or not.