Will Fertman @willfertman.com · Apr 16 Parents are often afraid they won't be able to talk about "the important stuff" with their children in sign language, and bad professionals use that as a stick to push families towards English-only approaches.
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My wife and I were lucky, though, to have a few contacts in the Deaf community. From them, we learned that it's often the opposite: the families that stayed close to their deaf kids were often the ones who learned ASL. Kids who grew up oral often had hard childhoods, developmentally and socially.