At the beginning of the school year (he started in March when he turned 3) I explained that I wanted whatever would be easiest for him. He had started signing very well with his speech therapist that the last couple of weeks before the transition that is all she was doing she wasn't trying to force words and she agreed with me that would be the best action. Once we got to the school board however I had this batty old wench who had never met my son tell me that by his age with his hearing loss had he been in the proper "program" he could already have had a vocabulary of 10 words or more. I just laughed. But after speaking to their therapist she felt that Calyx (my son) was capable of speech but sign would be more easy to teach with. So they decided that the class he is in was the only one in the district that would be acceptible to what I wanted. Now here we are in the second school year and they keep sending me home more progress notes of how he is working on "i" sounds and "e" and what not, I am still getting the updates on his signs I mean he is up to doing 3 word sentences (SEE) and it is wonderful. I have a parent teacher conference with them the 13th so i plan on asking as to how much emphasis they are putting on spoken language as opposed to sign. I just wish he were a little older to tell me what he is comfortable with. I realize he is so small but I don't want to make the wrong choices when he is so little and doesn't have an opinion of his own he is just kind of relying on my choices. That's kind of big to me.
Sorry I didn't mean to hijack. The video was truly wonderful