Flip, your post makes no sense. I've not posed a straw man argument. And I'm not comparing my child to a born hearing child who knows a little ASL -- who are you referring to? Are you confusing me with someone else?
I posted an essay written by a signing Deaf teenager raised in a Deaf family who opted for CIs. When you challenged me as to why I would post this, if it was to justify my own decisions, I explained that this is a unique perspective we don't see very often and it interests me because it is another example of how CIs and ASL are not mutually exclusive, which is something I wish more families realized. Yes, I would like other families to choose a bi-modally bilingual approach, because I see it working so well with my daughter, and I'd like to share that with other families who might think it's not possible or not beneficial to incorporate ASL in their children's lives.
Why do you object so strenuously to seeing real life stories coming directly from today's d/Deaf teenagers? Just because their experiences are very different from yours doesn't discount what you've encountered. They will have their own unique opportunities and challenges as d/Deaf children using CIs.
That was a suprising long reply to a post that didnt't made sense you, whatever..
An example of a straw man from you in the post before this: I, Flip, want to see stories only from hearing families with deaf children.
From this reply:
"Why do you object so strenuously to seeing real life stories coming directly from today's d/Deaf teenagers?".
If you read careful around, you will see that I never said that, classic straw men. Guess it's hard to change habits.
In the OP, it's a teenager who you describe by:"
perspective of a child whose first language was ASL and who is integrating both language modalities into her world, much like my daughter does.". So, yes, you are comparing your child to someone that definately was born hearing, and with unknown level of ASL. We do not know what her first language were. It's not even clear if the father was deaf or not, if father she had a father at all, and if she had any hearing sibblings or if all were deaf.
You go on deciding that this teenager is "Deaf", even if the article only states that she grew up in a Deaf family, and had signing help in a mainstream school. The teenager says she misses small sounds, something that indicates that she medically is hard of hearing, and maybe even can use phone with hearing aids. There is a lot in this story that we do not know, and as one other poster said, we miss the version of the mother.
But so, I don't care what stories are told, free speech is good. Just notice you make biased interpretations with an article from a hardcore cochlear implant oralist site that aims to promote that deaf children can "learn the language through hearing and speaking". Then you go on claiming that you are longing for more parents to follow the bilingual path, even if your signature says otherwise. Maybe it's you who don't make sense?
Even after almost 13 years of using CI I still have moments when I learn something new.