This is propaganda. This is exactly like what Hitler did with the Jews: paint an idea in ppls' head about a certain group of ppl, and change it...or try to eliminate it. Only this time no one is buying into this utter craziness. There is nothing wrong with anybody.QUOTE]
OK, Breezy darling....it's time for your shot!
Just kidding!
As I said before I think that part of the reason why this is being seen in America is b/c we have the only profit driven/capitalist driven health care system in the industrialized world....the companies really really want to make money, so they are really pushing them...maybe also it might have to do with Medicaid fraud....Unfortuantly there ARE parents and people who are buying into it....ugh! On the upside there are parents who are listening to the experiance of us well-seasoned vetrens...I believe that in a few years there'll be some oral-only adults who were oral as kids, but I also think that many of them will decide to learn ASL. I also think that as OUR generation gets hearing loss, we might see an INCREASE in late deaf folks IDing as Deaf....I mean even now there are late deaf teens and young adults who post b/c they are very interested in learning Sign, or who know sign anyway!
I can't believe they said not getting CI's was child abuse!!! Have they ever stopped to think that maybe ppl on the other side of the fence think that implanting a child who can't make their own decisions is child abuse????
Tell me about it!!!! I mean I think implanting a child who has auditory nereopathy isn't that big of a deal.....they still should go through a hearing aid trial just to make sure they absolutly positively can't benifit from aids (there are some cases that can benifit from being aided!) but, implanting kids up the wazoo....IYIYIYI! There's nothing wrong with implanting a kid who gets really nothing out of aids, but it's just so hard to accuratly tell how well a child hears! And I mean I have heard of late deaf kids (like three year olds) expressing a desire to hear...."when I sing songs, they don't sing back any more!".....but there's a huge difference between that and implanting a child who gets some benifit from aids!