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Oh, and I NEVER said that non-speaking Deaf individuals can not succeed, if I believed that I would have never used ASL with my child. I merely said that there are situations in which the lack of oral skills makes things more difficult.
Funny..I have good oral skills but in an enironment full of heairng people talking at a rapid pace, I struggle.
In the educational setting, despite my good oral skills, I was constantly left out, missed information, and etc. My life was more of a struggle as an oral-only deaf person than as a bilingual deaf person that I am now.