What is wrong with that?
Who said there's anything wrong with that.?
I think that it is great that Holly is thinking about wanting to adopt a deaf child unless she is thinking of having the child with hearing aid/CI.
What's wrong with adopting a deaf child and making a decision to let the child be able to hear?
The fact of the matter is that the hearing person must accept the child the way she is as a Deaf Individual.
btw... a deaf child is not automatically a Deaf individual... (Not sure why you wrote "Individual" with a capital..... Have neve seen a distinction between "individual" and "Individual")
Having the ASL access to the deaf child would be a good beneficial and good way to understand what the hearing environment is going on instead of having to suffer trying to understand the oral method along with lipreading. It is really just too hard on the deaf child. So please, Cloggy, try to understand us knowing about what is like to be deaf and still be proud of our deafness. We accept our deafness wholeheartly. Give us a break.
ASL is great for deaf people that cannot hear. And it's also wonderful for deaf people that can hear, and for hearing people...
An oral method for a deaf child that cannot hear is very hard... I would probably not want that for my child. But... my child is deaf but she can hear, and with that "oral" is excellent for her.!
But again, when my daughter prefers to speak, who am I to force sign upon her...??