Okay, drphil: Can you like, make a blog about your implant, with all your information (where you got it, when you got it, what doctor did it, what time you got it, etc.) in it?! Because it's SO boring to read "CHS" "Dr. Chen" "ORAL DEAF SINCE DECEMBER 06" or 07, whatever it was every post you make!
It seems to me that you want deafies to all get implants because it's "strange" that we want to use ASL and communicate with others that way. UM HELLO: Not everyone can get amazing benefits from CI, or even get the CI at ALL. It's great for you and for all my other friends who have a CI, but I don't want one and I don't think I can get one anyway! So if I want to talk or use ASL or PSE or make up my own sign language, that's up to me! Not up to you! So don't knock ASL or any other sign LANGUAGE unless you've really researched it, even tried it. Jenny wasn't saying being a linguist will help deal with deafness, she was just saying that she is qualified to say that she has studied enough about how languages work to say that YES, ASL IS A LANGUAGE!
