Ron, They have been saying that BS all over town for years. Bell started it. The Government, AMA and HLAA perpetuate it. The ENT said it in plain English the other day. We were insulted but we are used to it. People think ASL is alien and strange. Lots of people want to hinder its use for all...
Do you have to ask the most difficult question? First my point was that it is sick to leave a child without language when a perfectly good one exists. That being said I would answer no.
I know a CI kid who was taught ASL and who was later mainstreamed with no interpreter and is doing great...
I like your views on CI's. I think its a crime when they implant a kid two or three times and it doesn't work.
Nobody wants to tell you about that. And any anti ASL group
(HLAA, AGBell) Really, Really, REALLY doesn't know what they
are doing. Go to the Hearing loss association of America and...
I am a hearing signer and no one really wants to talk to me. I am required to use signed English or Deaf people tell me "not to try and be ASL" I am not a Sign language groupie, I only want to talk to my deaf son and some of his friends deaf parents. People ask my coda wife "are you deaf? and I...
Mainstreaming is lonely. When it works it works great but when 75% of the CI kids end up back in a deaf school, a school with falling enrollment because of mainstreaming, you have a problem. What if there was no deaf school to go/return to? And those are CI statistics. The numbers for aided kids...
Looked at a few
I have been spending time and money to find the "best"
deaf school for my son Joe. I think I have more current info than anybody. I noticed that lots of people like to post opinions about a school they have never seen because an opinion has been formed by the community as a...