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    Decision

    ok...I get that! I agree...I think it is SO important as a parent to be able to recognize AND acknowledge when a choice is made that it might NOT have been the best thing for the child... We make decisions based on the information we have at that time and sometimes those decisions are based on...
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    "You can exist without hearing, but to have a life, you need to hear."

    Thanks. I had the exact same "gut" reaction when I read the "You can exist without hearing, but to have a life, you need to hear." WHEN will people learn that life is NOT about whether you can walk, or hear, or see, or whether you are "the same" as another person?? Life is about who you are as...
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    "You can exist without hearing, but to have a life, you need to hear."

    The purpose of the surgery is SUPPOSED to be to lessen some of the problems that often go hand-in-hand with CP, such as increasing spasticity, pain due to contractures of muscles, deformities/ malformations of joints, etc. It is, as the article Bottesini posted states, a long and painful...
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    Decision

    I don't think that is always the case... in fact, i know it isn't. When my son was very young, I created a website on which I chronicled his issues, his struggles, NOT for "attention" but because I hoped that maybe another parent, who was feeling very alone as I had, would see my website, read...
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    "You can exist without hearing, but to have a life, you need to hear."

    The article reminded me so much of an article I read several years ago about a child with Cerebral Palsy having a procedure called a "Selective Dorsal Rhisotomy", and how the parent was quoted as saying that she hoped the procedure would "fix" her child so he would be able to walk. Now, my...
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    The Power of Sign Language

    Wow...really like the Grenade video!:applause:
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    Student terp needs ideas for ASL 1 tutoring!

    I agree 100% about voice off in class... my ASL classes were all voice off andtaught by Deaf instructors. It was the BEST way to learn.
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    Most annoying/frusturating interpreter mistakes

    That was a GREAT video!!!:laugh2::laugh2::laugh2:
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    Language hypothesis

    Did you miss that the last few posts before yours were referring to HEARING babies, not deaf ones? Obviously, a deaf baby will not perceive sound in the womb or after birth. :roll:
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    Decision

    I'm the parent of a child with a physical disability and I know that it takes a lot of work to balance the need for therapy and the need for a child to simply be a child and a family to just be a family. It is SO worth the effort, though, to try to balance it. I know I was not always successful...
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    Why would people want their children to be deaf?

    I'm sorry you went through that...but it sounds like your dad is a sick, twisted SOB and would have abused you regardless of whether you could hear or not.
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    Why would people want their children to be deaf?

    I am in a town, and previously lived in another town as well, where kids are accepted with all kinds of "differences"...acceptance has not been much of an issue for my son, and the kids who are jerks have been "equal opportunity jerks"... being mean and nasty to anyone who was handy. My son is...
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    Why would people want their children to be deaf?

    We just say he uses a wheelchair. *shrug* LOL, "bound" always makes me think the person is tied up... :naughty: :applause:
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    Do you care for music signed in ASL?

    I disagree with your analogy... the "purpose" of a sculpture for a SEEING person is to look at it... the purpose for a blind person would be to feel it.
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    Why would people want their children to be deaf?

    Bolded the parts that jumped out at me... I couldn't agree more! Would I have preferred for my sons sake that he not have his disability? Absolutely. Does it make his "less than"? Heck NO. He is pretty damn positive most of the time, works his ass off to do all he can do, and is a terrific...
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    Why would people want their children to be deaf?

    As the mom of a child who uses a wheelchair, we don't care for the term "wheelchair bound" simply because that makes it seem like he is held back by the chair... he's not, we just sometimes have to get a little creative with HOW he manages things. I am not "offended" by it... just don't care...
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    From a Deaf Perspective: Express it as it is for you.

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    From a Deaf Perspective: Express it as it is for you.

    As a hearing person, I am appalled by the lack of respect shown to Deaf people and their language... I can only imagine how awful it is for a Deaf person to be told, not only through words but, worse, through the actions of hearies, that ASL is not a real language, that it is a "lesser"...
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    How do you sign...

    Thank you! I ended up finding a website which explained that, but I wasn't sure before, because every dictionary/ website gave the definition in such a specific way that I wondered if there was a different sign!
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    How do you sign...

    I have been trying to find...and have so far looked on numerous websites, in my Canadian Dictionary of ASL and everywhere else I could think of... for the sign for "equals"..as in 5+5 = 10... I know the sign for "equal" used as "They are equal partners" or "This is equal to that".... but I am...
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