--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "suzmccarth"
<suzmccarth@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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.

I need to clarify - we have two people in our school at all times
who can act as sign language interpreters. We never keep a
child from signing if that is their native language. I am not sure
how that even entered the discussion.

Suzanne McCarthy