Some of you probably did not see the recent Deaf Times enclosed article thru Phil Moos' Deaf L-News. CLICK HERE to read Michael Dabrieo's article.
What will you make out of Michael Dabrieo's illogical article about Deaf People's Refusal to Reason on Cochlear Implant Surgery on Deaf Youngsters? You need to know some facts about the influential Michael Dabrieo on University of Maine student body population and city of Bangor.
Michael Dabrieo, University of Maine senior student and journalism major, ever in the Honor College program, wrote the Soapbox article blasting Deaf People for their refusal to be reasonate with the cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies. See the attached link via article below.
The Maine Campus newspaper is affilated with other seven universities in the state of Maine from University of Maine, Bangor, Augusta, Farmington ,Fort Kent, Machias, Presque Isle and Univeristy of Southern Maine and Maine Law School. The Maine Campus newspaper have been regularly picked up by 50 college newspapers for article re-publications.
Dabrieo is the student Journalist of the Year 2007 receptient at the upcoming awards. Dabrieo is also a popular student newspaper columnist and athlete within the men's cross-country and track team. You may see his photo at http://goblackbears.cstv.com/sports/m-xc/mtt/dabrieo_michael00.html He will graduate in December 2007.
Please send in your online opinion to the Letter of Editor for the "Maine Campus" student newspaper at this email address -
in civilized way with your logical agruments. We need to appear as pragmatic and self-sufficient individuals to defy the growing dismissal of our legitimate concerns for deaf babies and the existence of deaf people.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
There is reason of babies will put on CI let me said something if you surgery on Deaf babies for CI then when Deaf babies grow up and look what size of CI look like peabrain CI ? It is waste your $$$$$ money to replace new one CI Sorry i am against CI because when Deaf Babies grow up and tell parent said i dont like it CI will give parent hard time and said your fault put on me."Think about it" when babies grow up and talk about it I Rather wait until Teenager make decide what He or She want to be ? another things we look up Deaftimes talk about young deaf girl got killed by surgery made mistake swollen brain from CI. would Deaf babies like same thing happen first history like young girl who got killed by CI ?? We dont want see what next Deaf person 2nd History swollen brain by CI. I Know Mostly Deaf people like being Deaf by Natural Cause deafness not for CI. LET kids grow up make decide not parent cause problems later hate you cause you made me being one CI. let me ask you would you mind put when deaf babies born ready for it ?? I bet you would said hell no same thing as Deaf Babies I Like being deaf myself cause sh sh quiet no noise as Deafpeaceears no worry hearing cause hearing need understand deaf life mean to you. I remember one of hearing said to me I wish I want be like you being deaf cause of lots of noise drive me crazy!
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ReplyDeleteI AM INTRESTING APPLY ABOUT CI LET ME ASK YOU QUESTION DO YOU HAVE "ROBOT CI DEAF BABIES " CAUSE IT WILL SAVE MY COST I RATHER ROBOT CI DEAF BABIES WILL NEVER GROW UP STAY CUTE ROBOT CI DEAF BABIES FOREVER ?? DO YOU INSTALL ROBOT CI DEAF BABIES ?? HOW MUCH WORTH COST FOR ROBOT CI DEAF BABIES ??? LET ME KNOW THRU WWW.DEAFTIMES OR WWW.DEAFREAD OR WWW.DEAFNEWSPAPER OR WWW.DEAFWORLD.COM SO I WILL CHECK OUT PRICE CAUSE I AM INTRESING ABOUT IT THAN HUMANS BECAUSE IT SAVE MY MONEY CI AT ONCE PRICE NO MORE REPLACE CI IT I GUESS IT MIGHT BE WORTH BILLION DOLLARS FOR RAISE HUMAN REPLACE CI BUT I AM DEAF FAMILY AND POOR DUE BUDGET HIGHEST PAID LIVING FEED FOODS CHILDREN AND GAS AND BILLS DUE BROKE UMM DO YOU HAVE ACCEPT FREE CHARGE FOR ROBOT CI DEAF BABIES ?LET ME KNOW SOON HEAR FROM YOU NEWSLETTER
My 10-year-old deaf child with cochlear implants in both ears has better grammar than what I read here. That should tell you something. Cochlear implants take away the struggle of learning English. They take away the struggle of learning to speak clearly. They have opened up my son's world. Ask him if he'd rather not hear at all and he will say, "Never." It's like asking a hearing person if they'd like to stop hearing.
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ReplyDeleteAs a non-expert, you are making a huge mistake.
You need to understand the meaning of "global language proficiency." Robert reads and writes English as a second language, so he makes trivial mistakes, but he has a deep conceptual understanding--a type of deep understanding that your son might never achieve if you put limits on your son and forbid him learning ASL.
You need to learn the difference between BICS and CALP. CLICK HERE to read about it.
It's very important that you, as parent, understand that your child does not have *full access* to the auditory information. This is extremely important to understand. However, your child DOES have full access to visual information. This means that ASL can provide him with normal, cognitive, linguistic development.
If you do not understand these distinctions, your child will grow up and function as a handicapped person. However, if you provide him the opportunity to be exposed to ASL, he can develop normally and have thinking and communications skills at a non-handicapped level.
PS To anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI see you were probably referring to the comment above yours. You shouldn't judge a person by their skill in a second language. You should judge them by their skill in their first language.
This person's problems with English grammar is not an issue of ASL v. oral learning, but it's simply an issue of a problem with the educational system he/she was raised under. If he/she had been raised under a true bilingual method, then this person would be much more fluent in English.