PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cochlear Implant, Cued Speech, Oralism
Document Summary
Most minorities learn and are familiar with the majority culture. Advocacy has always been for removing barriers the deaf community is building them. Technological and medical advances are deemed as inappropriate and offensive. The deaf community regards cochlear implants as child abuse. Spoken english + hand signs that enable a deaf person to distinguish between similar lip movements with different meanings. Deaf community doesn"t like it slap to asl. Proponents cite success stories where such students went far in life. Usually starts off with sign language and builds on that knowledge to teach english as a. Many parents feel that this just smuggles in asl and english will be dropped later or dry. Age of introducing second language varies according to program. Asl to kids who grew up orally, some teach oral skills to those who grew up with deaf parents. Deaf children of deaf parents often do better than deaf children of hearing parents.
