Your Text Notes That Some Educators Believe That Deaf Children

question 124

Multiple Choice

Your text notes that some educators believe that deaf children should attempt to learn spoken language rather than ASL. Do the observations described in your text appear to support this belief? Why or why not?

• A) They appear to support it. Deaf children who were not taught ASL quickly acquire a spoken language.
• B) They appear to support it. Deaf children who were not taught ASL develop only a very crude gestural system.
• C) They do not appear to support it. Deaf children who were not taught ASL spontaneously acquire a gestural language, so they may as well be taught ASL in the first place,
• D) They do not appear to support it. Deaf children who were not taught ASL slowly acquire a gestural language essentially identical to ASL in any case.

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