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Do u have any idea of how difficult it is to teach children literacy skills if they dont have a strong first language? There are some days I just want to scream although it is not their fault but I do want to choke someone's throat for allowing this injustice to continue.


I always found deaf children of deaf parents so much easier to teach in all content areas especially in language arts. They can understand the differences between the parts of speech and what they are for so I can be able to explain to them that English has a different syntax than ASL. Those who dont have a strong first language have no idea what ASL or English is...they just know that ASL is using the hands and English is reading and writing but the concept of both of them being languages is too abstract for them due to not having a first language. Usually, they would finally get it probably in middle school or high school and then they finally "get it" about nouns, verbs, adjectives and etc..


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