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If a deaf child cnat speak nor process a spoken language and doesnt have a signing system, the deaf child is left without a language and will not be able to acquire literacy skills. That's why it is important for them to acquire sign language and then acquire speaking/writing skills later because if they are expected to acquire language through the spoken form and later on, they arent on par for their age level and then switch to sign language, it would be too late. As a result, developing literacy skills become extremely difficult if not impossible. I have seen it year after year with the students I work with. It makes me so angry.