Originally Posted by shel90

No, they do those kinds of modifications.

I am saying that they have always felt reluctant using both signing and speech to teach. Here is why according to them...

The hearing teachers that have worked at my place of employment for 20 plus years were there when my school changed from a TC program to a BiBi program. They said that they can see the difference in their lessons when using just one language instead of both at the same time. They said they never felt comfortable Sim-comming the lessons cuz too often the kids were misunderstanding the concepts and they would have to repeat or act them out which was very time-consuming for them. Also, they said that both the teeachers and the students would get burnt out from cognitive overloading.

They said since ASL is a conceptual language itself, the concepts are taught much more effectively and the kids are learning faster therefore less time wasted on explaining one concept over and over again.

For that, I will take their word for it cuz that is about 20 teachers agreeing to the same thing.