It's too late now, damage already done, what's done is done. Supposedly you see a deaf child and her first native language was ASL...then she's switched over to total communication and that program uses SEE sign language, the poor girl is struggle to understand the differences between ASL/SEE with English the most will suffer. The bottom line of what I am trying to say is if total communication used SEE in all total communication program; a child wouldn't be confused between ASL/SEE. I don't think SEE is a language, it's more of a method of signs to get a gasp of understanding English, by how they say it, and how they sign it, as the same one would write English.
In a Bi-Bi setting, they use ASL as their first language, and English as their second, that program will work better for those who learned ASL as their primary native language, than those who just came from an oral program. Early language acquisition is the key.
My answer is just simple as it seems, I've met many deaf people from all walks of life (oralists, ASL, SEE, people with good English skills/poor English skills) It got me to a place where I got more interesting in learning what cause differences in educational that each deaf people had experienced. Maybe it'll give me some clues of what I'll be able to find out.
Well, Thank you. I've done all those research just to get the understanding of what went wrong, and what should have they done better for those deaf children? I don't really think they study the minds of deaf people, their wants, their needs and what would help them successful. I cannot based my opinion on being biased because that wouldn't do anything good for those deaf children.