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From: James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack)
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Subject: Total Communication
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Date: 20 Nov 90 04:17:22 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Don't blame ASL for deaf failure. If it is so faulty, why do 
deaf people cling to it so tenaciously? Why doe sit refuse to 
go away? Why has 200 years of suppression failed to dislodge 
it? Because it is our cultural medium, just as any language 
is the cultural medium of any people. No people give up this 
core identity glue willingly. You'd have to kill each 
and everyone of them to terminate it. When bilingual 
education should have been taught, it wasn't. Rather English 
was crammed down the throat by means of the eyes. Well, 200 
years of failure shows it does not work. Now what? More of 
the same under a different name? ASL has historically been 
denied entrance into the classroom. Whatever you do, do not 
blatantly blame ASL for deaf education's failure. Why? 
Because in all honesty, ASL had nothing to do with it. It was 
not permitted to. 
  

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