Thread: Deaf Education - One size does not fit all
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Old 02-02-2008, 03:21 PM   #405 (permalink)
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To ask the child to do what is necessary to compensate is to put the child in the role of the adult. It is the parents who are the adults. Act like it. Take responsibility for responding to your child's needs. DO NOT EXPECT YOUR CHILD TO FULFILL YOUR NEEDS.

Jillio - Cued Speech can/does meet the needs of a deaf child in a hearing family with the language of their own family.

Suggesting that the families who choose this method are not meeting their deaf child needs and are expecting the child to fulfiill their families needs, is simply ignorance on your part.
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....Cued Speech has substantial data showing that it enables deaf children to attain competency in English at the level of hearing students grade by grade. I know of no other system that enables this to happen.... As more and more young deaf persons achieve academically because of this system, deaf leaders will need to re-examine their options.
- Dr. Edward C. Merrill, Jr. past president of Gallaudet
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