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She is accusing her of taking bribes.

Have you read all the accusations she has made about the integrity of this person? Not just on this thread but across many others.

Do you use an FM system? Do you get teacher of the deaf services, notetakers, captions on videos?

You are again making actionable, slanderous accusations against both Ann Geers and the Pediatrics publication. Do you have any sort of evidence to back this up?

Language deprived is not a scientific or educational term. As a teacher, I would have serious concerns if a child was not making more than month for month progress when enrolled in a language rich program. Without that, they will never close the gap.

They very clearly stated why the 40 were not included in the study. You are forming theories that do not align with the stated facts. St. Louis has public programs both in the city and county that use sign. The non-use statistics for people implanted before age 5 is around 3%.

Your claim was that the kids who continued to sign needed to sign, not because sign lowered their ability to understand spoken language, but because their impaired access to spoken language made them rely on sign. That would mean that all of those kids happened to start in the sign group. Why...

Of course we cannot yet determine the cause. We can, however, follow patterns.

That study is true, but your statement is not. You have absolutely no data that says that children who use sign have better vocabularies than those who don't.

Then why, in the original study, did none of the children who did not sign start signing? None of the spoken language only students needed to add sign.

Here is another study that says that a child benefiting from signing (called sign enhancement) was negatively correlated with higher levels of speech perception, speech intelligibility, language and literacy in high school (meaning they were less likely to be in the normal range)...

Parents would absolutely have the opportunity to visit a school and program. They would make arrangements with the administration and get a tour. A stranger on the phone would get no such thing. I would never attempt to call a school and ask a teacher of the deaf that I do not know about his/her...

It would be inappropriate for someone to call and ask a teacher about the students on their caseload. I would never answer questions about my students like that.

Because people involved in the education of the deaf should/would be interested in this information.

I have students whose primary language (at home and school) have been ASL including in the mainstream (with interpreters) and in the self-contained classes I have taught. They are, by far, a minority. I would guess, in the mainstream, one out of every 8-10 students uses an interpreter but in a...

I have worked in a large suburban school district as an itinerant teacher of the deaf (with students with every degree of hearing loss from 2nd grade through 11th), in an inner-city self-contained preschool program with students of all language modalities, in a birth to three setting with...

Absolutely, that is critical

She is the one claiming that her friends tell her these things. Her claims do not match my experiences or the research.

Which teachers? Where do they work? With what age children? When were the students implanted? What is the modality of the early intervention services the students get? What is the modality of the school they work in?

The only time that AVT discourages lipreading is during auditory only tasks. That is a minority of the time. When language, vocabulary or articulation is being worked on, lipreading is neither encouraged or discouraged. Often AV kids develop excellent lipreading skills during natural interactions.