Recent content by lucyinthesky

OK, I should have said "confounding." I meant "confusing" in the sense that you are not distinguishing completely between the two (and I do think the lines are blurry), not in the sense that you don't know the difference. I meant no disrespect. :) You said that "spoken language" is part of...

I'm not 100% sure, but I thought that now they were also implanting children who are severely deaf and not considered to be benefiting from hearing aids.

I'm curious if anyone out there has experienced this and if they could say what it sounds like. Do you hear both the signal from the CI and from your residual hearing at the same time? I guess maybe someone with an implant on only one side could answer this too.

Yes, I would think that if you did the same study with deaf children of deaf parents using ASL, the deaf kids would have the same word learning abilities for ASL as the ones who were implanted early had for English. It would be an interesting study.

Sorry, I meant no offense to the original poster or to her intelligence by saying she was confusing the two. I think she's giving her daughter great opportunities, and I think she must be very bright and thoughtful to have made the decisions she has. Actually, I think it's the teachers who are...

Yeah, some do. No one knows in our case. I have heard a 30% chance or a 50% chance. That's why I think it's important for her to be bilingual in sign language. Which brings us back to the original question, no? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the reason why many people...

Hehe I try not to. I should have been clearer...I don't really think it's okay not to learn sign if you have a deaf family member, but I get why hearing parents have trouble with totally ignoring speech because we spend a lot of time speaking and it's a big leap to decide that you're not...

Deaf brains may become wired differently in some ways, but the language centers are similar. That is how Ursula Bellugi's work proved that sign languages are controlled by the same part of the brain as spoken languages. I guess there may be some debate on this, but I have a degree in linguistics...

I agree. I just don't know how to force others to think the same way. I feel like I'm already treated like a second class citizen because I speak with an accent.

I am going to go back a step and say I don't agree with this. It's not that deaf babies' brains don't work the same way, it's that their ears don't work the same way. In the cognitive sense, bilingualism is the same for a hearing child or a deaf child. Some people grow up bilingual in ASL and...

It is definitely possible to be completely bilingual, but it's a lot of work. Like one poster said, some kids will answer their parents in English when they are spoken to in Spanish, but if the parents refuse to accept it the kids will use Spanish as long as they have the resources to do so. I...

Just wondering - why don't more people use cued speech? I had never heard of it until I was in college, and there was a deaf student in my class who had a cued speech transliterator. To me it seems to make more sense than SEE, because children learn the phonetics of the English word and not...

RonJaxon, I do think your situation is different because you already had a language when you lost your hearing. So the doctor probably assumed you would want to keep using the language you knew best. In the case of a prelingually deaf baby the doctors and parents are dealing with something of a...

Some states are doing ASL tutoring via webcam. The school for the deaf should know about that. Also, try NAD, National Association of the Deaf. You can borrow videos from DCMP.org :: Home

There are schools that use sign language but no higher education in sign language, only vocational training. The famous Institut de Jeunes Sourds in Paris, where the Abbé de l'Epée worked, uses sign language now but it is pretty recent I think. I visited there a few years ago and the director...