Hello and Welcome. I am a deafblind person who was born mildly HOH and wasn't exposed to sign language at all until college. Only I didn't get to learn much signing as my sight went.
NO! I think it is unethnical for babies to have CI. They are best learning proper sign language and speach via hearing aid or other method such as tactiaids until they are old enough to make their own decision.
They could learn the basics on how to communiicate to deaf or deafblind via none verbal means such as fingerspelling, block capital letters or using pen and paper.
varied. I attended a special primary school as I also have Asperger syndrome and then a completely normal high school where I was bullied so much I had to leave. Then I went to another high school with a partial hearing unit which was completely oral. They discouraged signing. They even discouraged mixing with the other deaf kids but we go together anyway.
Hearing community until I went to a deaf college but I hadn't learn't too much signing before I lost my sight which made learning signing more difficult. Being a loner and not being able to mix well didn't help either.
