Right on lady!!!! English is NOT like the Chinese languages where a difference in pitch (how you pronounce the word) turns a baby talk word into a swear or something like that. Speechreading is valid and NOT a crutch. Yes, there's value to auditory training, but it's not a tool you need to use all the time. Even HEARING people speechread! If you think you don't speechread, take a day where you blindfold yourself when you interact verbally with people. You'll see that yes you DO speechread!More information is obtained through non-verbal communication (yes, even for the hearing) than is obtained by auditory information.
And again, you are confusing language with speech. Yet you claim not to be an audist.
Huh? I never got the vibe that Grendel is audist, except for the normal audist feelings that a lot of hearing parents have when they are still coming to terms with their kid as a Deaf person. And yes Grendel, you ARE very accepting and all.....but I do have to say that most hearing parents still have some audist attitudes. I don't mean that as an insult. More like.......Have you read about how in the old days parents were taught if they adopted a forigen kid, the best thing was to try to assimulate them into white mainstream culture, and they didn't "need" stuff like heritage camps?My goodness, but the parents with audist belief systems seem to stick together like glue.
It does take time to fully come to terms with a child's difference. It took me 18 years to come to terms with being hoh.
Oh, and jillo, I gotta say I don't think that Grendel is defending FJ and rick b/c they are audist. I think its more like she feels like you're criticzing them as parents. You aren't...you really aren't. But it might be taken that way.
Yes indeedy! Dead on.You better do some research. The fact of the matter is, most CI students still require the support services that non-CI students get.