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Alot of Deaf people, like when i attend Deaf events they tell me to take my babies hearing aids off and let him be "truely Deaf" I cant, I want him to have options. Thats why I choose both HA and ASL if he becomes 10 and the HA are not what he wants by all means he can make that decision and...

Yeah i have had some of the rudest most disturbing questions asked....One lady asked me point blank "is your son retarded?" I didnt even give her a responce, i finished shopping went to the car held my baby and cried my eyes out! Where i live very few people besides elderly people wear hearing...

Again i think any communication is good communication. I know several people who are deaf and NO ONE in their families took the time to learn sign and they have no one!!! They isolate theirselfs and want nothing to do with any one! I do like my sons oral program but i also think ASL is just as...

Any Communication Is Good Communicatio!! I am a hearing mother of a HOH son. my baby was born with a severe hearing loss. At first this was very devistating and heart breaking only because i knew nothing of the deaf community and I had no idea of what i was supposed to do as a mother. I woke up...

The oral school my son attends and the ASL classes are seperate...The oral school is one of the best in CA but they dont do ASL, I drive 1 1/2 hours 3 days a week for my baby to go here. alot of the parents are against it.. One mother refuses to use sign for her 2 HOH sons and put them in swimm...

Thanks all!! Its good to be here!!!

Hello, I just found this site while researching my sons hearing loss....I am a hearing mother to a HOH infant due to the gene connexin 26..I have 2 sons my first is 3 whose hearing my 2nd is 19 months old with a severe hearing loss who wears hearing aids and attends an oral school and ASL class...