Search results

No, that isn't what I said.Not at all. Not even close.

General we. All of us who care and can, myself included.

Which is great! We need to improve the average and make sure that all children with hearing loss have the opportunity to succeed.

No, the fact is that the average student with hearing loss is not achieving at the same level as the average hearing student. One in five deaf students graduate high school with a reading level at or below the second grade. One in three graduate reading at between the second and fourth grade level.

I have worked in every type of setting except a state school for the Deaf. I have worked with teens in a self-contained classroom, a Title I public preschool program, as an itinerant in a public school district, in early elementary as a listening and spoken language therapy provider, in early...

What I've actually said is that there is no research that says that children who use ASL outperform those who don't in English literacy. That statement is true. If you have additional research that says otherwise, I would love to see it. Hearing students absolutely outperform children with...

Show me the words. Show me where I say anything that is negative about ASL or Deaf people. I said that we focus on teaching our children to think because people bashing spoken language as being nothing but speech therapy and neglecting cognition and academics. We don't. That does not mean that...

No, my words specifically say otherwise.

No, most do not end up going to our program. I also did not say that deaf children can only be at the level of hearing kids if they listen and speak. You need to go back and reread. I said that we educate our students so that they are at the same level as hearing kids. It doesn't mean our way is...

They have the option of sending their child to the school right down the road that uses ASL. We have one that is housed inside a mainstream school.

Why would they place their child in our program if they weren't? One family uses ASL at home and spoken language at school and the other family knows ASL but chooses to use spoken language at school and home.

I have two Deaf families who have children in our listening and spoken language school. One has bilateral CIs.

#15 discusses late acquisition of a first language and its effect on long term cognition and language use. This is also something we both knew.

There are many people who are happy with listening and spoken language, but I am sorry that you were scarred. You deserved access to language.

I don't force anyone to do anything. I do not make the choice for children. I do not provide CIs or hearing aids to anyone. A family chooses listening and spoken language services and then I provide them. Why is your beef with me? Do you believe that I shouldn't provide the services that a...

#9 says that children who hear better with their CIs learn new words more easily than those who don't hear as well. That, I think we both already knew.

Wait, are you claiming that people who use listening technology are no longer deaf? That is absurd.

Absolutely not. I know families who choose no amplification and ASL as the language of their family. I know families who choose CIs and ASL as the language of their family. I know families who choose spoken language. All of those are amazing choices and can be successful.

A 6 week old baby can't make this decision and their parents are the ones who do. Who do you think should decide for a deaf infant?

Again, I am not in a position where I could possibly force anyone to do anything. If you don't want hearing aids, don't use them.