Disheartening because.....

so many bloody parents are opting the oral method with this attitude "learn our way or hit the highway" and the child doesn't have a choice or a voice.

It's so tiring to read that they think Oral only education is the best option, but they should be reading about the risks of putting their child through that way and look at numerous studies showing such evidence. And meeting many ex-Oralists would help disabuse their perceived opinions.

It makes me want to smash their heads together, and I'm not a violent person by any means.

I don't think the future is bright for deaf children in western worlds with the exception of the Scandinavian countries.

We all could learn a thing or two from Denmark, Sweden and implement it in our system. It should succeed, but no thanks to audists, it won't without their support.

Still to this day, deaf kids are being dumped in hearing school with no support or very little support. And their parents wonder why the said child is doing so poorly.

I wish Profession Clarke didn't write in his book that mainstreaming is the best way for children with CI because they don't need accommodations, and therefore are cheaper for the government to educate compared to deaf children in an all deaf school.

But the mental, social, psychological cost are so much higher and therefore will cost the Govt a lot more in the long term due to need for treating mental problems, more need for counselling, because many of those displaced kids won't have the fluency in language to function properly, nor do they all know how to cope.

Bleak picture is what I'm seeing right now.....

Time to boot out all the audists and put in competent professionals who are all for the full toolbox approach.

Oh, may AGBAD and hearies at the Milan Conference 1880 ROT in HELL for damaging deaf kids from that time and ensuring the cycle to continue the damage to this day.