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Seems to me that no matter what country you live in, as a deaf person, at some point,  you would want to become literate in the native language around you.  Otherwise you are somewhat isolating yourself.  It also occurs to me that being able to speech read would have some benefit.  It's not realistic to expect the entire hearing population to learn sign language.  Either that or get out your pencil and paper and expect to do a lot of writing.  There doesnt seem to be many choices if you choose to assimilate.  As I understand it CS is a good means of learning to speech read and speak, and it's working in many different languages as well.