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Originally Posted by shel90
I think it is the oralists and the medical community. Doctors are telling families not to put their children in bibi programs...
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That is what I was afraid of. Do you see why I thought it would be up to the manualists to indtroduce ASL into the lower grades like preschool, to protect them from the oralists?
I wasn't trying to start a controversy. I look at this stupid war, and I realize that people sat back too long and just watched it happen. Now we are all paying the consequences. I realize that ASL is the thrid highest language in America, abut that is at the high school level and above. It does not keep the mainstreamed kids included in the lower grades, and by the time kids get to high school, they usually have already developed their prejudisms or their indifferences.