she is 3 and way implanted last month. recently, i learned that the deaf community is very against this.... why?
Not true.
What brought you here to discuss this?
It's not frowned upon as much as long as you are giving your daughter what most of us call the "full toolbox" meaning you are giving your daughter as many communication methods as possible. In the event that your daughter ever has to go for long periods of time without her CI or ha and cannot communicate in english (or any other language) and she doesn't want to use a pen and paper then ASL is highly encouraged.
But since you already are teaching your daughter ASL and she's being given access to hearing and you've probably already tried hearing aids...there isn't much of an issue. The main argument is what if one day she hates it and wants to be in a world of silence and just be deaf but she has no means of communication but she won't because you are already using ASL...just don't drop it once she starts talking regularly which some parents do with their children...They figure since speech has been attained that ASL is no longer of importance which isn't true.
i've met so many people that are deaf recently and they all ask why i know sign if i can hear. i tell them my daughter is deaf but is getting (now has) a CI. they all get furious and say i'm changing how god wants her to be. i've been looking it up online and prople seem to think what im doing is just as wrong as taking a hearing 3 year old and making her deaf. i wanted to talk to the deaf community as a whole (as much as i can at once) and see what everyone really thinks.
Not true.
What brought you here to discuss this?
she is 3 and way implanted last month. recently, i learned that the deaf community is very against this.... why?
Not true.
What brought you here to discuss this?
Deaf family? Is the ones that their daughter wanted to have CI, but seemly forced her decision to not have CI?
she is 3 and way implanted last month. recently, i learned that the deaf community is very against this.... why?
Yes. Mom and all kids have CIs now, dad chose to stay deaf.
This isn't actually true (anymore).
The Deaf community 15+years ago had a very different perspective on CI, largely because the benefit was much less of a sure thing - the technology has improved drastically in the last 15 years, and more educators and families are realizing that the former "CI=oral only, no sign" approach was actually detrimental to the recipients not beneficial as they'd professed.
The main issue with CI, and HA for hoh and deaf children is that the children still be given access to sign language - for many reasons, not the least of which is that a child with a CI or HA is still a hoh/deaf child. Also there are situations in which the CI or HA must be removed, may break, or when background noises etc are such that the user isn't able to actually understand anything they hear (especially speech).
The reality is that Sign Language is always a benefit, even if it's not "needed" daily. It creates an environment where a child can grow up bilingual (always an advantage) and have one language that doesn't rely on hearing to communicate fully. It's also worth noting that bi-lingual kids are better able to learn additional languages later on ... so if they want to take Spanish, French, German etc in school they already have an understanding of how different languages work (and their brains are "wired" to understand multiple languages & language rules etc).
The Deaf community isn't so much (now) against CI as it is against the idea of professionals continuing the myth that CI kids are better off with only one language, and not signing ... an approach which has been less successful for decades, yet is still unfortunately "pushed" by some professionals/CI centres/schools etc.
I know a number of Deaf with CI - they sign and speak, they're part of the Deaf/ASL community etc ... they (like me) balance living in the Hearing and Deaf worlds. Is it easy all the time - no, but very little in life is truly "easy" and almost everything that is "worth it" takes work to manage.
audree went deaf when she was a little over 1 yr old. completely. she has absolutely NO response to ANY decimal of sound. we had been doing ASL ever since she was born though because she didn't want to wear her hearing aids all the time. even when she can hear we will continuw ASL/ i love knowing sign and i think it's importnant for anyone to know.