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In my opinion, it is very rare for HOH who used Oral only approach and be very successful. If he/she did, she is intelligent in the first place. But the average HOH/Deaf who used oral only approach end up with low paying jobs anyhow. My severe HOH older sister is very intelliegent but used the...

I was in the same boat as you were. I pick both ASL and Oral.

I mean so they can feel normal. Who likes to feel alone????

Most Deaf culture want to keep their rights to have deaf children, they do not want any government forcing them to have their children implanted when they love their children the way they are. They also want a culture who will accepts deafness as normal. That's why they are strongly against CI...

Headaches---> I had that for several months. I think it goes with learning new sounds and the brain is stressed. I don't get them anymore :) tinnitus--> I got those before and after CI. I only noticed at night when everything is quiet. Believe it or not, I play with my tinnitus by making...

sure if it is on TV and it's free. Most hearing parents with hearing kids will not waste their money on ASL video. And I think alot of hearing kids like to watch fun videos. Signing time is one of the fun video. Beside, I think this video was aimed mostly for babies, toddlers and kids who...

I have no interests in being my kid's "best buddy". He gets plenty of that from his friends. I am interested in being his parent. If any of my kids want to act like an adult, then I expect them to work part-time and help me pay some of the stuffs (I would end up using the money to pay for her...

What with the "Hey it's (name)" ?

I feel that if teens are going to act like adults and making decisions without their parents, then they should just have their own place. Because I don't know why parents have to be forced to be a doormat for their teens. "yes, honey, I will buy you birth control" "yes, honey you can go out...

It's either that or nothing at all. Hearing parents will let their kids watch it, but they will not take them to a sign language class.

What's different does it make. You had perfect speech in begin with. For me since I am Severe HOH since birth and never learned ASL, And people have a hard time understanding what I am saying. I have to repeat or come up another way of explaining myself. Beside, deaf people's are very capable...

I am all for it. It is like if a child lost his leg and the mother feel he need to wear prosthetic leg all day, how would he handle if it start hurting him (in our case, trying to communicate get tiring and we get burn out often) He would need a wheel chair to give him a break, would him...

Define what is considered bad experience? Did they expected too much from CI as a miracle cure-it-all that can make them hear like a regular hearing person? Did they expect to hear clearly within the first day? Did they choose it for the wrong reason like someone pressure them to have it done...

How exhausting! I don't think of every little letter when talking to someone. I rather deal with cued speech than fingerspell. But anyway, ASL is better above all.

i heard they would shun you if you didn't grow up in a deaf culture. and the poster that wrote about the newsletter, they were only writing in ASL.

I was nice and friendly to everyone too. But I was never taught ASL. So I didn't use it.

I thought you are part of the deaf culture if your parents were deaf and use ASL. That you are not consider Deaf culture if you were raised by hearing parents, used Oral communication, or whatever.

wow, that sounds like me..and my friends. They would give me a quick brief what's going on. I did have a great christian friend who came up a journal for us to pass around. (she still have it!!!) She would write and write about everything that goes on in her mind to me. I would write back...

Actually the kids were harsh in middle and high school. It got worst for me. I liked elementary school alot better than I did in high school. I was SO GLAD to get out of there. But anyway, when I was in 7th grade, my english teacher would write down the assignment on the board. Ok, that's...