rick, we know you had a bad time with some of the more radical Deafies. But you have to understand that was DECADES ago! DECADES!!!! Heck, did you know that back in the day the Deaf community was against HEARING AIDS?!?! Now it's only a small number of older Deafies who are anti HA!!! (and maybe some of the other voice off ASL onliers) That is actually a VERY SMALL population!!!!
That would be an excellent reason for a residental placement. At res schools they have dorm parents who serve as surrougate parents/families. And it's very rare even today that a kid is a complete oral failure. Virtually all kids can benifit from TC you know. I'm sure shel and jillo have seen countless examples of kids who were deemed "oral sucesses" and were introduced to ASL or Deaf ed and now really THRIVE.
Which brings me to my next point. You have only been around for one generation of dhh kids. They were saying the EXACT same stuff about ten or twenty years ago.
Heck they were saying the exact same stuff 25 or 30 years ago. Some dhh kids from back then have really thrived orally....but many others haven't. I bet 20 years ago shel and I (and countless others who were raised oral only) would have been classfied as overall oral sucesses and not likely to ever "need" ASL or deaf culture.
