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Don't allow a few to pass judgement. I am deaf with bilateral CI. I am also frustrated about the small amount of people who seem so anti-CI or anti-oral, don't allow others to push your son away from the Deaf culture. I hope you son will help others to see that you can be an oral deaf person.
Just like Jackie told me that she wishes I can see the successful oral deaf children, I wish u and her can see what happens to children who are deprived of language. That's my whole point!!! That is what makes me anti-oral ONLY not anti-oral. YOu and Jackie are missing the point..u think we are anti-CI and anti-oral when it is not true. The truth is we are against denying deaf children full access to language and the ideas that sign language interferes with deaf children's spoken language development. Is there something so bad about that? Also, we are not against the children themselves. We are against the kinds of practices and approaches that deprives the children of full access to language. BIG DIFFERENCE! As teachers, you should be able to understand that but yet, u label us anti-CI, anti-oral, or that the Deaf community is full of people who look down on oral deaf people.
I was raised orally and I am happy to have good oral skills but what I am not happy about is the denial of sign language and no opportunities to interact with the Deaf community as a child. I am not happy that my brother suffered for 5 years before he was exposed to ASL therefore retarding his language development. Like I told Rick48 before, that is my passion....for all deaf children to be given the same rights as hearing children.
If that doesnt clear up what our views and feelings are about, then I dont know what will clear all these misconceptions about what we are against or not against.