shel90- The richest enviroment for a child and language is home. Some hearing families of deaf children cannot provide an accurate fluent model for the child to learn, for many reasons. You wish to continue to pressure hearing families into a situation where optimum learning may not result. Why do you do that?
Providing a deaf child the opportunity aquire their familial language through Cued Speech, and the family can/does provide a deaf individual for ASL, and the child/family aquires ASL, isn't that the best of both worlds?
