Mom is going to learn ASL!!

I will pose a question then...

Do you (AD population) think it's better for a child to grow up strictly oral, with access only to spoken English, or...

Is it better to at least supplement the spoken language with the signs that support it via MCE?

If it was going to be one or the other, what would be more beneficial for the child?
 
CSign said:
I will pose a question then...

Do you (AD population) think it's better for a child to grow up strictly oral, with access only to spoken English, or...

Is it better to at least supplement the spoken language with the signs that support it via MCE?

If it was going to be one or the other, what would be more beneficial for the child?
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Neither.
 
I can appreciate that the vast majority of AD'ers believe that ASL should be a deaf Childs first language. I'm not disputing that. My hypothetical question remains...

If a hearing parent who is fluent in English has a child who is DHH, and that parent has no experience with ASL and therefore cannot provide a complete language model for that child in ASL.

Is it better to strictly use spoken English with that child...

Or is it better to provide them with visual clues via SEE to support spoken language surrounding them?
 
CSign said:
I can appreciate that the vast majority of AD'ers believe that ASL should be a deaf Childs first language. I'm not disputing that. My hypothetical question remains...

If a hearing parent who is fluent in English has a child who is DHH, and that parent has no experience with ASL and therefore cannot provide a complete language model for that child in ASL.

Is it better to strictly use spoken English with that child...

Or is it better to provide them with visual clues via SEE to support spoken language surrounding them?
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If a parent can learn SEE, then what's stopping them from learning ASL?
 
CSign said:
I will pose a question then...

Do you (AD population) think it's better for a child to grow up strictly oral, with access only to spoken English, or...

Is it better to at least supplement the spoken language with the signs that support it via MCE?

If it was going to be one or the other, what would be more beneficial for the child?
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Depends on how much the child hears. If it's a mildly hard of hearing child it's going to work better than if more loss.
 
CSign said:
I can appreciate that the vast majority of AD'ers believe that ASL should be a deaf Childs first language. I'm not disputing that. My hypothetical question remains...

If a hearing parent who is fluent in English has a child who is DHH, and that parent has no experience with ASL and therefore cannot provide a complete language model for that child in ASL.

Is it better to strictly use spoken English with that child...

Or is it better to provide them with visual clues via SEE to support spoken language surrounding them?
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Offffff course, MCE will have to do in that "hypothetical situation"... But hey.... Imma toss out a "hypothetical situation"; the parent KNOWS ASL is the best choice and refuses to do so... what do we do?
 
CSign said:
I can appreciate that the vast majority of AD'ers believe that ASL should be a deaf Childs first language. I'm not disputing that. My hypothetical question remains...

If a hearing parent who is fluent in English has a child who is DHH, and that parent has no experience with ASL and therefore cannot provide a complete language model for that child in ASL.

Is it better to strictly use spoken English with that child...

Or is it better to provide them with visual clues via SEE to support spoken language surrounding them?
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If the parent is learning, of course, their syntax will follow SEE but most of us are talking about the educational placement. SEE should NOT be used by the teachers when modeling language.

Then, as the parents build more ASL vocabulary, then they should focus on the syntax of ASL instead of just strictly picking SEE over ASL.

I just wish the concept of SEE would get thrown out and call it, "building fluency in ASL" for new signers.
 
CSign said:
I can appreciate that the vast majority of AD'ers believe that ASL should be a deaf Childs first language. I'm not disputing that. My hypothetical question remains...

If a hearing parent who is fluent in English has a child who is DHH, and that parent has no experience with ASL and therefore cannot provide a complete language model for that child in ASL.

Is it better to strictly use spoken English with that child...

Or is it better to provide them with visual clues via SEE to support spoken language surrounding them?
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so hypothetically... parents should do what works best for themselves and not do what works best for their children?
 
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