The Benefits of Bilingualism (subtitled)

[GodOfUnbelief]

Multilinguism shouldnt be an exception, it should be the norm. Monolingualism should be whats considered weird.

[Ondelendo]

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[Kricardose]

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[bebeheuy]

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[Mjhond]

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[AntoMelta]

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[willamricard]

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[imegatrone]

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[romulas80]

The problem is that in Deaf education today, bi-bi is defined as ASL followed by WRITTEN English as a second language. BUT there are children with CI's and hearing aids that have access to SPOKEN language and that is NOT being developed in our bi-bi schools and that is why hearing parents do not want their children to attend them.

[DeafBilingual]

@romulas80 That is no longer true since oracy is now a part of the educational bilingualism framework as it has been updated in the 2000's. The one you just described was more common in the 80's-90's before the rise of CIs.

[romulas80]

@DeafBilingual

As of right this minute, in Deaf schools all over the nation, spoken language is NOT being supported. It is as equally forbidden in the classroom as ASL is in an oral classroom. (Which makes sense if kids can not access spoken language, they will be left out.) How can a school support and value a language if it is only allowed 20 minutes a week in a therapy session.

[avbria]

@romulas80 Ok, I am a teacher of the Deaf and I know what I am talking about. I am not here to argue with you but I am telling you what has been practiced in a school for the Deaf where I work. I am a bilingual specialist and have been studying signacy, literacy and oracy. They all are recognized and practiced throughout the day not just 20 minutes of one on one speech time. For you to say that it is equally forbidden in the classroom as ASL is in an oral classroom is a myth.

[romulas80]

@avbria I'm the parent of a Deaf child in a bi-bi school. Spoken language is forbidden in our classrooms. There are children who can not access speech, so it is not allowed in the classroom. Those kids would be left out, and that would defeat the entire point of a bi-bi school. The kids are told that they can speak outside at recess but in the class, it is totally voice off.

[avbria]

@romulas80 I understand that we need to keep two languages separate which is why ASL is a language of instruction however there is a place in oracy in bilngual practice according to the course under CAEBER at Gallaudet Univ that it is a part of the framework. When we look at this way, there are more opportunites to speak than sign in general esp who come from hearing families so ASL use is still not equal to spoken English since 70% of a child's lifetime is spent outside the school.

[romulas80]

@avbria I disagree. A child needs to be surrounded by the language they will be learning. If the child is using ASL, the family and surrounding community should be using it as well, otherwise the child will never learn and they will be unable to communicate. When my daughter was ASL-only, every word spoken was interpreted to her. That is the way it must be, for her to learn.

[romulas80]

@romulas80 continued

So, when are they exposed to fluent spoken language? When is the language modeled and used? For my daughter, it was the twenty minutes a week in therapy, and even that was SIM-COM. She was never exposed to spoken language outside those situation. How do we expect our kids to become bilingual? BOTH languages need to be valued and used, and not in a token "learn common phrases" or "improve lipreading" way. Real, fluent language.

[avbria]

@romulas80 Your Deaf child is already bilingual based on what I saw your videos. Beautiful job done! I wouldnt worry too much about developing perfect spoken English since it takes some time. What really counts is that your child has critical thinking skills and ability to express herself whether it be ASL, written English and/or spoken English. I was like your daughter except that I grew up in a public school with no support but use ASL with my Deaf family

[romulas80]

@avbria But, she would never have become bilingual with spoken language if she had stayed at a bi-bi school. Spoken language was not allowed in the school, and she got poor therapy. She was not given access to fluent spoken language, how could she learn it?It was not valued at all.

[avbria]

@romulas80 Being bilingual doesn't mean spoken language has to be used. My Deaf son is fluent in English and ASL but he doesnt speak. He is 12 years old and currently functioning at 9th grade level according to standarized test that compares to hearing peers. This is much more important to me than investing most of the time to focus on spoken English that will reduce his chances of learning language development during the window of opportunity.

[avbria]

@romulas80 (cont;d) All I want to clarify is that not all Deaf schools don't practice oracy. At the same time, I understand why some of them chose not to since they valued language more than anything else. Really, it has to be tailored for each Deaf child since not all benefit from spoken language. You as a parent can always give input to implement IEP goals to maximize the spoken language skills as long as it is appropriate for her and that she enjoys it.

[avbria]

@romulas80 (cont'd) Let me tell you what I have seen from my son's class when they were 3 years old. Half of them got cis and went to mainstreaming programs after Kindergarten and my son remained at a bilingual school. He wears no hearing aids and doesnt use speech since he is profoundly deaf He skipped a grade and now is in 8th grade. As of today, none of them have matched to my son's level and one of them with a ci returned to his school and ended up in 6th grade. He wants to be a lawyer btw

[avbria]

@romulas80 Another student with a ci who used to be in my daughter's class back in 1st grade returned last year and ended up in 5th grade. My daughter became 11 last month and is in 6th grade. She earned an honor roll twice this year and mastered academically & socially as she is a well rounded student. She just started to develop her interest to wearing hearing aids and mastering speech as it is not too late but it will be too late to master a language if she didn't acquire before the age 5.

[avbria]

@romulas80 One more thing, when I went to a bilingual Deaf school for the first time, my speech improved dramatically that my hearing friends who havent seen me for a while said whoa, you speak much better! There is a research document saying that ASL makes it easier to teach speech by Sharon Graney as you can google it.

[avbria]

@romulas80 I dont see how you are disagreeing with me since we are agreeing the importance of accessible language that the child needs to acquire. I am really glad that you and your family have used ASL since there are more than 80% of hearing families NOT signing to their Deaf children is what I am referring to not necessarily to you personally.

[AnonyMiss403]

Great video! I sort of wish you'd subtitled the sim-com portions too, though. I have a Deaf Brit friend who was interested in this vid when I told him about it, and ASL makes about as much sense to him as BSL does to me. ;)

[abcgrrl]

wonderful!!!

[obriensign]

Amazing. Thank you for sharing this.