It's really too bad that we can't get more hearing parents here to discuss. I am under the impression that there is only a handful of hearing parents of deaf children on AD. I am not surprised though. I mean, not everyone, especially the older generation, is proficient in internet forums. I am sure it does not occur to some people to go to online forums to talk to deaf people for research. First thing my mom did was to assess me at a deaf school (Clarke), so she talked to the teachers and audiologists and took a tour of the school. She was willing to put me in a school with the deaf, so it was not that she had a problem with me being with other deaf people. She just had a problem with the school itself (didn't think it was consistent or structured) plus it helped that the school DID reject me (sniff sniff). It wasn't a cultural rejection, they felt that I'd do better in a private school. Anyway, just saying that my mom was willing to move to Boston to enroll me in Clarke, but did not like how the school was. Nothing to do with "eww! deaf people!". 
