Re: IMLD, 2/21/05: Braille & sign languages

suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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.

Evidently you don't read what you write, either. At what point did you
explain that you were talking about your particular school?

At what point did I refer to having interpreters available for signing
children?

You clearly wrote of children who _never learned to sign_ and of
children who would be "changed" from signing to one of the impositions
of English that have been invented over the past 200 years.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...