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SarahsDad said:Hi Liebling,
Thanks so much for you reply. I'm sorry that your parents didn't learn sign. It's not that uncommon, . I know that learing another language can be difficult, especially as we get older. I've been trying with slow success to learn Spanish. My fear is that I will be slow learning ASL also. On the other hand with my daughter I have all the motivation.-SarahsDad
I heard of a statistic (anyone please confirm or deny) but have not seen the source. I was told that only 20% of the parents of deaf children actuall learn to sign. Sure it's difficult but how could you not want to communicate with your child. Perhaps there are parents out there that decide on CI's so that they don't have to take the time to learn sign language. If true, I think that is sad. For me, learning to sign would be of minimal consideration for the critera of deciding on a CI. That would be a totally selfish reason.