Posts Tagged ‘Cochlear Implants’

Still Deaf!

December 19, 2008

ASL and CI together again!

I was very pleased to see this video for the first time. It was very worrisome to many people when Cochlear Implants first became widely used. There is always a fear that ASL will be rejected by parents and that Spoken English will be forced upon deaf children. This video shows that once Deaf, always Deaf. It also demonstrates that many parents will still teach ASL to their implanted child. I am so pleased to see all these children with CIs using ASL and loving it! Signed Languages are the ONLY natural languages for the deaf. CIs can be used as aids in the hearing world, but it will never replace ASL.