No.no.no, Dont shut up for now, or ever. I may have read into your statment too much, but it seemed that you were making a broad statment about kids with CI, and thier parents not teaching them sign. I get soo tired of peopl esaying that I am preventing my daughter from learning sign, or not exposing her to deaf culture and so on. By posting my last post, I was simply saying, dont paint us all with the same brush. The entire field of oral deaf ed has changed drastically in the last several years, and continues to change as we speak. I think one of the reasons these schools are changing, is because we parents are so involved with our childs education, progress, and expectations are increasing. This is not meant to say that parents in the past have not been involved. If it were not for those parents, I am certain that Lilly would not have the advantages she has now.
