Language deficits are not due to being deaf. There are many, many other causes of it. I have news for you: Language can be learned without oralism yet in the majority of cases where English is taught to a deaf child in particular, oralism is enforced as mandatory to learning English.
I corrected my speech from the written language (visual) in addition to my mother naturally correcting my speech as any mother does, same as she did/does with my hearing brother and all her hearing grandchildren. (I'm the only one deaf in my family). All of us are well-spoken because of it. No difference between hearing and deaf when learning language (except the deaf are visual). In other words, look at the way most people in English speaking countries learn English (include immigrants), they don't go to 'oral programs'. Mostly by means of which I just mentioned. English classes in school too, yes, but not oral programs.
