LangDevResearcher

http://www.deafdc.com/blog/chris-heuer/2007-08-16/informed-decisions-parents-know-best-and-other-mythical-creatures-iii-of-iii/

I tried to make a link, this web apparently does not support it. Copy and paste the url address, I highly recommend this reading. It is written by a very respected deaf professor, he eloquently put it all together.

Read this, Chris Heuer "Informed decisions, parents know the best" third of 3 parts

Momto2bilateralciuse,

English is one of three languages I use everyday and it is not my primary language. I acquired it later, please kindly show respect.

Wonderful that your implantees are doing well enough, there is a huge moral responsiblity with claiming that many deaf children will be that successful with CI hence "a great solution".

People like us in the field of deaf language development for years suggest that Deaf Ed system holds more responsiblity in providing best ASL model like how deaf schools in Sweden do. Parents simply do the share by providing their spoken language model to their deaf - hoh children at their home environment. Then just allow children figure out than when one day they will say, my parents were not willing to show their respect for my rights and wishes. I learned this hardest way with my mother and grandmother.

I am a researcher in language development of deaf and hoh children, I concur with all commenters supporting bilingualism for each deaf - hoh children. Experiences and many researches already show about two third of CI implantees still have language delay as far as about 4 years behind in spoken English vocabulary by time when they become around 12 years old.