Did your son goes on the school bus to his school or did he walk to the school close by from your home even if you are in the metro area?
Oh, come on, now. I can not believe that you feel that most parents don't want to be separate themselves if they can not find a way to help the deaf child's need instead of going through with oral-only method. Only if they can find a mainstream schools with ASL friendly enough to have ASL interpreters in the classrooms being able to understand the lessons taught by the hearing teachers. A day Deaf school would be great for the deaf child or deaf children to have ASL in the programs so that they would not be delay.
