At the end of December, the ACLU of Delaware, which is an affiliate of the nationwide ACLU organization, announced that they were “SUING” Delaware education officials in part because there were too many deaf and hard of hearing children going to the Delaware School for the Deaf and not getting Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) therapy.
But the ACLU-DE deleted their post after getting a strong pushback from Deaf people and professionals in Deaf education.
Sara Nović, a deaf professor and author, started a Change.org petition to call for a complete retraction of the ACLU-DE’s complaint. It has over 22,000 signatures as of today. Nović said it is false and dangerous that one must “choose” either English or ASL and that it can lead to Language Deprivation Syndrome.
Excerpt: “The binary that one must choose either English or ASL is false and dangerous, and can lead to Language Deprivation Syndrome, a preventable disorder that causes permanent cognitive damage. Deaf children deserve both languages, and the ability to develop to their full intellectual capacity.” - From Change.org petition created by Sara Nović
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-aclu-s-dangerous-lawsuit-from-harming-deaf-children
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