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Um, wouldn't you rather have other things for your birthday? We really do not need new "cutting edge tech" We need more AFFORDABLE hearing aids.

Exactly. One wonders if you would be a lot better off if you'd gotten a comprehensive approach from the start. Your post breaks my heart........

Huh? Where in the US uses Makaton?

The answer is not really. Most blind people are adult aquired blind. Only a small percentage are pediatric blind/low vision. I don't know exact numbers but I thought there was a significent percentage who are severely multihandicapped(like pediatric nursing home level) blind. That's why Jr Blind...

Yes you are if you use Auslan. How come you don't know anyone who is deaf?

Was it due to atresia? That's a condition that can be surgericly corrected

Atresia?

LOL...Thanks....Trebekistan is where Jeopardy fans live!

Welcome!

Again....FINALLY!!!!

No writing on the blackboard?!?!?!?/

You could have a ministry to hearing parents of dhh kids to encourage them to give their kids ASL!

How do we know you're not turning "Oh I spoke with a Deaf adult or a couple of Deaf families into "I worked with them?" You keep contradicting yourself, ignoring questions etc......

Not unless you worked at a sizable GRADED oral deaf school like CID or Clarke. You do realize most Deaf families don't pick oralism as a be all or end all placement, but as a placement to work on speech skills, right? Then they use terps or even send their kids to Deaf School. Also considering...

You do understand that's how propaganda works right? The Russians must LOVE you. That is one of the ways they try to sell oralism by highlighting the superstars who would be superstars even if they were hearing. When's the last time an AG Bell scholarship was given to a kid attending a state...

On FB I mean silly! We need to TALK!

Um no. One of the defintions of Deaf is someone who uses ASL in their daily lives. You said one of the families knows ASL but doesn't use it in school or at home. Besides it's very rare for families who know ASL to opt for an oral education. It DOES happen, mostly as part of a "many different...

Was the film sponsored by the Oberkotter foundation or other people who think that there's MONEY in oralism? Problem is that the oralists are CONVINCED it's still 1974 and that people will be so impressed by a kid being able to hear and speak that they will be able to coast to Harvard based...

No, that wasn't a slur about you. But I was talking more about ...if you talk to college professors you will hear stories like "this kid shouldn't be in college" or even with first job sites you'll hear comments like "Kid went to Harvard but he really cannot think. All he can do is write...

BINGO! I get the vibe that TOD has prolly just talked with one or two extremist parents and the type of kid who grew up MISRABLE being oral and mainstreamed but fakes it b/c their parents are so extreme. They exist....like the type of parent who flips out about ONE thing and suddenly that one...