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Why not? One of the greatest benefits to having access to sound via a CI as well as ASL is that my daughter can communicate easily with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins (near and far, in person, by phone), with the children in the neighborhood, with her dentist, local shopkeepers. The thought of isolating her from family, neighbors, community members is pretty horrible. And it's a recurring issue among deaf adults: the misery of the Thanksgiving table, the isolation of family gatherings. What is the solution to that sense of "otherness", that isolation, if not providing ASL for those people with whom we interact daily?
The solution..??? Other than everyone using ASL... none, really...
in this thread alone we've had people with CI, people who can hear and speak well, and deaf people... A whole spice cabinet of walks in life.. They all pretty much said the same thing...
I have to REALLY thank my parents right here..
I am the only deaf person in my family. Yet our thanksgiving and christmas was always filled with people who can sign. There was usually more deaf people there than hearing. My brother and I had our friends (all of them signed) over for the holidays. It was a blessing.
So from that experience.... I have to say everybody should be signing. Not necessarily fluent ASL. some of my bros and my friends were using the Rochester method but they could understand sign language.