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Originally Posted by Angel
The reason why I asked Shel is because 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, and these parents know very little about deafness and also would like their deaf children to learn spoken language and if you were get hearing parents to be interesting in these bi bi programs, how would you do that?..AND if you noticed why there are many hearing parents favor early implantation is because of an increased improvement in their child's speech classes..
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Some parents are well-informed and make the choice while others dont get that info and then their kids end up in our program later on. Usually the kids who come into our program later on have language delays. My school has a family ed program who goes to home visists and educate the parents about all the options including our program. Up to the parents to make that decision. We have children with CIs coming in our program as babies and some of those chidlren are able to switch between both lanaguages which is really neat to see.