Have Things Gotten Better or Worse?

[dreama]

No..those kids' only way of communicating is thru sign language and their parents know that because they werent successful with speech therapy or putting their CIs in good use so isnt that awful that the parents are still willing not to learn sign language? I think it is cruel!


I wish parents would listen to deaf adults instead of listening to these so called "specialists" who claim to have so much training in deafness. They dont know jack shit if they have never been deaf or if they dont have any deaf relatives themselves. :roll:

I agree. Parents of the deaf definately SHOULD learn to sign. My point is that sometimes they are misguided by oralists who tell them not to bother. Which is very sad.

I had a friend at college (for the blind) who was deafblind. Her father was very much into the oral method. He was mad with the college because they were using sign language and manual communication to communicate with her instead of forcing her to lipread. She was happy to sign. The teachers no doupt found communicating manually and with sign language so much easier but her dad just wanted her to to lip read when she was partially sighted and obviously struggling and probably couldn't understand a lot that way.

 

[shel90]

I agree. Parents of the deaf definately SHOULD learn to sign. My point is that sometimes they are misguided by oralists who tell them not to bother. Which is very sad.

I had a friend at college (for the blind) who was deafblind. Her father was very much into the oral method. He was mad with the college because they were using sign language and manual communication to communicate with her instead of forcing her to lipread. She was happy to sign. The teachers no doupt found communicating manually and with sign language so much easier but her dad just wanted her to to lip read when she was partially sighted and obviously struggling and probably couldn't understand a lot that way.

I have no vision problems and lipreading is very hard for me. I cant imagine trying to do that partially blind. Come on..some people need to get slapped out of their stubborn "hearing" views. That's the thing...many hearing people who do not understand deaf culture or people have such a hard time believing that we are happier using sign language. :roll:

 

[dreama]

I have no vision problems and lipreading is very hard for me. I cant imagine trying to do that partially blind. Come on..some people need to get slapped out of their stubborn "hearing" views. That's the thing...many hearing people who do not understand deaf culture or people have such a hard time believing that we are happier using sign language. :roll:

I agree. It was very wrong that my friend's dad, not only did he not sign but he was telling the college off for signing to her. Her lip reading is so bad that you just can't communiate with her properly that way so her case signing is the only sensable option. She was much happier signing. It was so obvious that it was her prefered method. The last time I met her she had a CI. She was no longer happy and kept complaining about the noises she was being subjected to. She still prefered me to use deafblind manual. She seemed to be getting the worst of both worlds which was really sad.

 

[Capmeister]

I have no vision problems and lipreading is very hard for me. I cant imagine trying to do that partially blind. Come on..some people need to get slapped out of their stubborn "hearing" views. That's the thing...many hearing people who do not understand deaf culture or people have such a hard time believing that we are happier using sign language. :roll:

I'm a hearing person and *I'm* happier using sign language. In a loud place, or across a room, it's excellent. My brother and I were each driving our own cars and he was in front and I told him things at stop lights.