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From: rudy@mtqua.att.com (Avram R Vener)
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Subject: Re: ASL,SEE, etc part 2
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Date: 26 Nov 90 05:51:49 GMT
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Index Number: 11964

In article <15731@bunker.UUCP>, James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org
(James Womack) writes:
> Index Number: 11823
> 
> needs (ASL) and forcing one on them that was not geared to 
> their needs (English) a grand folly results. English is 
> phonetically based. You need working ears to have any hope of 
> mastering it. Trying to teach it via the eyes is little 

Wrong.  A close friend of mine was born deaf to hearing parents.  She has no
hearing whatsover and never learned to speechread.  She also has perfect 
English.  She learned her English through signing and fingerspelling.
When you talk with her on the tty or computer you would swear she was 
either hearing or 'oral'.  The only thing that gives her away is that 
she does NOT know how words are prounounced, which words rhyme with 
what or other such phonetically related attributes.  Also her spelling
errors are visually oriented instead of phonetically oriented.  

Rudy Vener AT&T BL uucp: att!mtqua!rudy