Ok understood..just seems like many of the parents' here on AD posts and the parents of the CI students at my work talk so much about speech so I was wondering if ASL was just as important too? Sometimes, I just get so sick of listening to people constantly talk about how important speech is ...I don't know what's wrong with me but lately at my work, it is always about meeting the CIs kids' needs first and meeting the parents' expectations about using spoken language. Lately, there hasn't been much talk about ASL being as important. When I read your last POV about speech, it just was thebreaking point that caused me to express my thoughts about speech and ASL. Maybe it is just one of those times when iam readin here in AD and listening at my work about speech skills all the time and I took it too literally. It is not a big deal. I will get over this bad mood about speech..lol.
Nah..I wasn't accusing u and sorry if it came out that way. 
