Originally Posted by shel90

The doctors or audiologists are the people the parents of a newly diagnosed deaf baby first meet. The parents are the ones who decide whether their child should be placed in an oral-only program or not and a majority of them listen to the medical professionals' advice more than any other advices. That's why we need to get the advocates to the hospitals as well as the schools. The early intervention team has been unsuccessfully trying to work with the medical community especially those in the implant industry on the benefits of ASL but the doctors wont hear of it. Sometimes I wonder if I should have been an audiologist and worked at the pediatric dept.