I wonder why some people think speech is superior to signing. In the story of the graduate student who was working with a graduate speech pathologist student to compensate for his or her hearing and speech-skill loss, the student he or she was working with did not approve of Deaf children signing.
"...I noticed that she had a look of grim disapproval on her face. She was actually frowning!...All she could say was, 'They should be using more speech.'"--pg. 198, p. 4 and 5Why would she care how a group of people she will never have to interact with communicate with each other, especially when no one involved in the conversation would have been able to hear speech anyway? I do not understand why people cannot mind their own business instead of trying to push their opinions on aspects of life they cannot relate to on others who actually understand those aspects of life.
I don't understand why that graduate student looked down upon the Deaf children, either. They shouldn't be deprived of the easiest and best way for them to communicate!
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