If I had a deaf child, I would not choose oral method because from my experience as a deaf person I know what it is like.. the frustration and trying to fit in with the rest of the hearing students, getting the full experience of communication along students and teachers, I had to reply on lip reading the entire day--five days a week in school for years. ASL and speech/speaking is the answer to a deaf person's problem and that's my opinion because of that communication is the most important tool without any frustrations by replying on lip reading. Not all hearing people can speak slowly or clear enough for a deaf person to read their lips. ASL doesn't have that problem.
Now if I had a deaf child, I'll enroll my deaf child in total communication program where there is no miscommunication and no frustrations. Which meaning my child will have both-- signs and speech skills. 
