I do appreciate your input, dialogue, and participation. Whoever you are, it’s neither your fault nor your parents, we must get together and push for bilingual education for the next generations of deaf children. I love all my relatives, friends, and colleagues–hearing, deaf, oral, hard-of-hearing, CIers and CODAs. I’m not against speech training! Why, my younger brother enjoyed wearing his hearing aid and was ever eager for his speech lessons and we supported him.
Granted, I’m proud of my heritage. ASL is my first language, I grew up bilingually and, of course, as a bilingual I’d protect it with my life. Does this make me a deaf militant? I really don’t know.
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