Most parents see a fraction of successful children posters in an only speech training program, without access to natural sign language. Oral Deaf Education Confidential takes you behind the scenes of the only speech training programs to see the real results. And what happens to the majority of children who failed in the only speech training programs, had to transfer to other schools, and many fell through the cracks in the educational system.
This blog will have guest bloggers as well as an anthology of the true stories from other blogs and websites. The ultimate purpose of the Oral Deaf Education Confidential blog is to educate the parents with babies who have hearing loss or are deaf, so they could be fully informed in order to make an unbiased decision for their children.
In addition, some successful students coming from the oral deaf education background who are now deaf adults. They have been sharing their true stories: upon learning natural sign language, at the price of oralism, they realized how much they suffered the stunted emotional, social, and psychological developments. Now that they are members of deaf community, they are much happier going back and forth between deaf community and society.
2 Comments
August 17, 2007 at 12:39 am
I am one of the few cream of the crop in the oral world growing up before I learned ASL. A vast majority of my oral friends did not have the ability to talk fluency like me. My life as an oral person was not easy and learned to accept myself not understanding other people most of the time unless it’s one on one, facing each other, etc.
After I learned ASL, my life changed, I was able to interact effortlessly with another person. I still have many oral friends that do use sign language but not fluency. Anybody can learn sign language and use it in English structure like most hearing teachers for the deaf. The problem with sign language in English order is that the data flow rate of informations is slow while ASL got the same data flow rate as hearing people verbally. Many people still don’t understand that data flow rate communication and teaching is so important to educate deaf children.
You have to have the fluency in ASL to understand ASL and its potential ability to understand why it is so important in teaching and communicating.
John F. Egbert
August 17, 2007 at 1:05 am
That is good idea! I am victim of oral abuses…so I will be interested in reading this blog! Keep it up! More dirt to reveal! =)