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I didn't hear anyone on this thread say they felt a need to "fix" this child. What I heard was a concerned parent, asking for education and support and receiving it.
If a child has a chance at normal hearing, I think it's the parent's choice to make that decision. I think there are those here who would disagree about a cochlear implant being an "elective" device.
And please don't assume from my post that I don't care/don't know anything about the deaf community. I am proficient in ASL, and am teaching my son who has normal hearing to sign. (not just baby signs, but for the rest of his life. If he can learn Spanish, he can learn another language -- ASL.)
Kelley
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SUPPORT GLBT ADOPTIVE PARENTS
Mommy to a spectacular little boy from Guatemala
DOB: 10/03
referral: 1/04
home: 5/04
and baby boy #2
3/23/06 I-600A to USCIS (no homestudy)
3/31/06 received fingerprint appt from USCIS
4/5/06 fingerprints
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw
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