From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 4281
Date: 2005-02-27
>Curiously, that's not how the Deaf community sees it.
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I work with one child (who hears with a hearing aid) who never
> learned to sign - she came to Canada from somewhere else - I met her
> at age 10 and I won't start her over again in ASL since her English
> is increasing at a fast pace now.
>
> And my entire point is that a child has to learn at some point to
> speak the language that they are learning to read.