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23-11-2006
The end of sign language?
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 London, UK (New Scientist): Is this the end of sign language? New studies have shown that profoundly deaf children who received cochlear implants before the age of 1 develop language and speech skills remarkably close to hearing children. But although a triumph to audiologists, the findings could be seen as a threat to the culture and language of those born deaf. The deaf community maintain that it is unethical to give deaf babies cochlear implants. According to a psycholinguist in the US: “There is nothing wrong with them that needs fixing with a surgeon’s scalpel”.
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