faire_jour
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It "Seems" impossible TO YOU and to those who didn't EVEN want to try. My mom got this fierce desire to get connected with me enough to learn sign language in SHORT time. She was the one that taught me sign language, ENCOURAGED me to read books EVERY NIGHT for an hour then I was AHEAD of others when I was in HEARING ELEMENTARY school (with interpreters)! When I moved to deaf institute for a short while, I was IMMEDIATELY send to mainstream into hearing school and I even went to gifted group at HEARING school. I won top 10 debating in 4 different states (all hearing), won Gold Medal in Basic Electronics AND Bronze Medal in Advanced Electronics against hearing schools in state of Delaware during my high school years! I even attended college during my senior year.
I went and majored in Electronics Engineering at RIT and I am now a IT professional working with servers, active directory, exchange 2007, and various technologies.
Instead of researching for best ways, finding most perfect ways or criticizing others on what things should be, DO spend your time with THAT child, develop communication with THAT child, find effective way to get THAT child to communicate with you and USE THAT communication AS A TOOL to bring THAT child up and INTRODUCE THAT child to your OWN language (English).
ASL, to me, is a SPOKEN language and ENGLISH is both written and spoken language. I just read a lot of good books (Encyclopedia is a GREAT book for your child), studying its language and I ALWAYS strive to excel in writing.
Think about it.
I didn't make up the information. You can not become fluent in a language overnight.
And, for your information, I AM an ASL user, as is my Deaf daughter. ASL is her first language and she attended a wonderful bi-bi school for 3 years.