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Because the child is still deaf. I know a little girl who is the same age as your daughter. She is implanted and goes to the same school my neice used to go to. I saw this child just recently. She was speaking and obviously very fluent in spoken English. Half way through, the child started to get tired and wanted to take off the CI. Her parents allowed this. I then got to witness this child very effortlessly switch from spoken English to signing with her parents. It was very obvious to me she was bi-lingual and had command of both sign and spoken language. Unfortunately, I know little sign, but they were able to tell me what was said, so I wasn't totally clueless as both the child and her parents were fluent in both languages.
I don't see why this can't happen for other deaf children. In my opinion, it can, but most parents choose either sign or spoken English as the mode of communication. :roll:
I love to see deaf children do that! Switch from one language to another. It is AWESOME!