So, shouldn't we offer the same opportunity to our children? You are drawn toward affiliation with deaf adults with CI, not an all hearing environment. If it satisfies a human need in you, why wouldn't it serve to satisfy a human need in a child? That is the whole point. In order to provide that child exposure to others that share common characteristics, it is necessary for a hearing parent to first admit the difference, and then intereact with others who share their child's difference. They have to step out of their comfort zone of what is the same for them. The same for a hearing parent is not the same for a deaf child. The parents are the adults. It is up to them to facillitate this interaction for their child's sake.
