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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:52:00 EDT
- Sender: DEAF LIST <DEAF-L@SIUCVMB.BITNET>
- From: ALAMA10@HUMAIN.BITNET
- Subject: Re: Slang, fluency and translationexit
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- To <rggentry@GALLUA.GALLAUDET.EDU>--
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- My comments concerned the _economics_ of oral and manual
- education. From this perspective the issues you discuss in
- your recent post are largely irrelevant, important as they
- may be in other ways.
-
- But you do make one of my economic points far better than I
- could myself:
-
- > [...] Perhaps interpreters can be viewed as expensive,
- > but far more expensive are the communication breakdowns
- > that can occur without them...the misunderstood
- > doctor's directions, the misunderstood legalese of an
- > attorney, the inability to participate fully in
- > society's decisions because of a lack of information or
- > understanding. The consequences are far more expensive
- > than the interpreters.
-
- A school or program which, for whatever reason, fails to
- teach a deaf child as much speech competence as he/she is
- capable of learning thereby saddles the child with the
- lifelong economic burdens you so vividly describe here.
-
- --David James
- ALAMA10@HUMAIN.BITNET
- DMJAMES@GALLUA.BITNET
-