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The study is specifically addressing and testing the belief that sign will slow use of English. These are Gallaudet VL2 associated researchers, so I'd have thought they'd have access to deaf bimodally-bilingual students for this study.

If I'm reading this right, it looks likes this study shows that taking a bilingual bimodal route, despite splitting language use between 2 languages, does NOT slow down English use (although it does slow down ASL). I'm waiting for the full article to be available, but I'm wondering why they...

I contacted my hospital to get both my surgeon's and the hospital's success / failure rates for CI surgeries. They should be able to provide that to you. If you want ww #s, the CI companies themselves are required to provide their product-specific reliability rates ( Nucleus Reliability |...

Hi jbeer! Are you looking for data/stats on medical success rates (implant surgery, revision surgery), or technology/device longevity, post-CI audiograms showing access to speech sounds, or something qualitative like satisfaction rates, %recipients who found improvement in word comprehension...

All 3 offer excellent, cutting edge products, you can't go wrong with any decision you make. After familiarizing yourself with all of the features and stats for each of the 3 products, I'd recommending discussing the options with your surgeon and your CI audiologist. They can be loathe to...

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Sure, I understood her video and the quote in my OP, I'm asking about your comment. What was it you tried and found hard to explain to her, opened her eyes to a few months ago?

What did you try to explain to her?

This lovely video from a deaf and very talented TLC alumna and Wellesley grad is a submission to the CouchSurfing "Get Inspired" contest -- and it ends today! "Like" the video on YT to give her a shot at winning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux2BOn4QWw

My daughter started using ASL about a year before she began learning English, but for the most part she's been acquiring both simultaneously. She was taught ASL and placed in an immersive ASL-focused learning environment, she picked up English organically outside of her structured classroom...

I wasn't making that point, although I'd agree with you that seems likely. I was only asserting that my experience differs from DD's: although she says VO students are rare, even at deaf schools, I have seen that at TLC a vast majority of the students primarily use ASL, and haven't found...

I'm familiar with deaf schools, not as much with deaf kids in the mainstream, so I deferred to deaf dyke and her assertion that it is rare in a regular classroom.

I see many sign-only kids, sometimes Deaf of Deaf, but not always. Some wear aids, some don't. But they do have a full language in sign, so there's not an effort to develop a spoken language when sound is not accessible to them. But then maybe that's because I'm involved with a bi-bi school...

Early intervention can usually provide you with a list of local playgroups including families with deaf kids, whether they run them or not. Ours pointed us to a school for the deaf that held 3X weekly parent-infant group meetings in ASL with terps, providing us with language development and...

:wave: If you haven't already, look for the "Boston Deaf Night Out" group on Facebook: regular meetings at restaurants in and out of town. Next event: December 14th at Jillian's near Fenway Park.