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From: James.Womack@f7.n300.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack)
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Subject: Re: Sign Languages
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Date: 28 Feb 91 16:10:46 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Your example of the perfect English deaf person is one person and
representative of the average deaf person. Nor will be in these recent
times. Social factors such as the degree of parent participation inthe
child's education, degree of hearing loss, age of onset of the hearing
loss, age in which schooling began and a host of other factors determine
how far a deaf person advances in mastering English or fails to. Then you
have the inherit mental ability of the person. Mystatement stands, the
average deaf person doesn't reach the level of English mastery that most
hearing people do. Grabbing one or a few examples of exceptions to the
case proves nothing except a stubborn rejection for facts.

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