--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@...> wrote:

>
> What I called child abuse was depriving a child of any native

language,

> viz., keeping it from signing.

This obviously is about what happens before a child gets to
school, so why did you talk about the Canadian children I was
"proposing to abuse"?

Some children with cochlear implants learn English long before
their parents become fluent in sign. Maybe some do not.
Signing is *not* the only option of a native language for the Deaf.