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Unread 02-22-2008, 09:45 PM   #238 (permalink)
jillio
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Originally Posted by shel90 View Post
They have been in intensive speech training from birth to 5 years old...yet unable to develop speech skills. That is based on the speech assessments conducted by the speech therapists.

Why use precious time on something those kids have shown not to benefit from? We use the time with them on enriching their educational progress. I dont see how that is so bad?

Bilingual..kids are fluent in ASL and English.
It isn't bad, shel. But it would appear that attempting to expain bilingualism to a monolingual who doesn't want to understand is futile.
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