Not even a little. One of my very good Deaf friends has two Deaf children. She has chosen to not give them hearing aids or expose them to speech therapy. That is her buisness. She is raising them with excellent ASL skills and they have access to fluent language at all times. That is certainly fine with me.
What I am against is not having a plan. If you want your child to learn ASL, you MUST learn it yourself and make sure they always have access to fluent language models, ASL in to home, interpreters in every situation in which they need information from hearing people (doctor, dentist, etc). If you want your child you use listening and spoken language you MUST give them access to all sounds of spoken languge. You must provide them a rich language enviroment and access to quaility professionals who understand the development of spoken language in children who are deaf.
The only choice that is unacceptable to me is doing nothing.
