My parents are hearing. I used lip-reading and spoke. I was assessed at Clarke School (an oral school for the deaf) when I was about 2 years old, and said that I could do well in a mainsteam school. I was also assessed by a speech therapist and she saw that I could understand people by lipreading and was really verbal, so she worked on my speech skills along with problem solving skills. She spied on me in pre-k and kindergarten (embarrassing) and made sure I was doing fine.
My parents did not offer sign language to me, although my mom did take a few classes to start learning before the Clarke school and speech therapist assessment.
