suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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.

Curiously, that's not how the Deaf community sees it.

Have you not noticed the distinction between Deaf and deaf?

Are you saying your experience with deaf, or Deaf, people is limited to
one hearing-impaired 10-year-old?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...