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Old 05-12-2008, 09:32 PM   #43 (permalink)
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That's true. But I think that with more people within deaf culture getting CIs this will be less of a factor. We were speaking more of a personal, political decision not to wear a CI. I knew a few people who made a political decision not to wear a hearing aid despite having grown up with them but most people seem to continue wearing them or resume after a break.

R2D2 - Aren't peer pressure and personal political decisions the same thing?
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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.
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