No wonder the Late Deafened woman don't know anything about us, Deaf people. We have to use our ASL or sign language to communicate to be able to understand. Don't worry about speech. To us, it is still a language for us to communicate. Every culture had different languages. Why do white people banished us to not to speak our native tongue but preferred us to speak English? They are more comfortable in their comfort zone. So they made us suffer to use their language instead of our language. In the mainstream school, we had to suffered trying to understand in the classroom when we were not allowed to have sign language. They forced us to speak their own language, not ours. Well, it is the same with native children who had to put up with them. No one should ever take our languages away from us when we like to speak our language because we are comfortable to communicate.
My husband spoke Ojibwe, but he mix some English words into his language Ojibwe. He loves his Ojibwe language and no one should take it away from him. He was happy in his own language and for me I am happy to sign in my own language (ASL). Forget about what that woman to you. :roll: