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Originally Posted by rockdrummer
Regarding language aquisition, I understand the deaf kids are more visual learners (obviously), and I understand the importance of aquiring language at an early age but I'm not sure I understand why learning ASL before English would be preferential. After all, at some point English should be learned so why not teach it first? It seems to me that if deaf kids have deaf parents that are fluent signers then ASL would be the natural choice but for deaf kids of hearing parents English might be a better choice for L1 language. What do you guys think and why?
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Because deaf people dont have the hearing ability to access English 100% like hearing kids and run the risk of language delays if they struggle with picking up it.
ASL is fully accessible to deaf people cuz it is a visual language so learn both at the same time.
I dont understand why it has to be one or the other. Like can be either oral or ASL. I have seen kids who have been exposed to both and some of them became fluent in both at the same time.
I dont like the idea of presenting the one language that is not fully accessible and run the risk of delays. I see it too much..wayyy too much.