> There's some fairly nasty ignorance running around on the issue of > "rejecting" deafness. ck: Has anyone been following the Gallaudet U. oral/signing controversy, re rejecting deafness? Related...There's a very good, relatively recent documentary about Deaf Culture, with a focus on cochlear implants (considered by some to be the ultimate rejection of deafness). I'm not sure of the film's name...Is it _Sound and Fury_? Maybe _Soundings_? Come on, what's the name? I recommended it here once before. A note on ASL: Learning how to read any language is difficult, apparently, if one relies on ASL, or some other signing language, to the exclusion of lip-reading (oralism). ASL is more of an affective than a cognitive language; it's closer to a "whole language" than one with Indo-European roots. (Ever watch a translating signer carefully? It's not unlike miming, or acting.) But without the automatic subject-verb-object connection, reading is a bear. Carol ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html