Talk about misunderstanding...that is not what I am saying at all. No where did I say you claimed CIs were required to use ASL. :roll: I said that CIs are not necessary to access ASL, which is language. In a visual mode. CIs therefore, are intended to access language in a spoken mode. Therefore, their purpose is not just to access language as you previously stated, but to specifically access language in a spoken mode.
In other words, people who do not have CI or HA access LANGUAGE all the time. They simply do not access SPOKEN LANGUAGE.
You are taking something with a very specific purpose and trying to broaden it. It can't be done.
