[plondon514]

As the hearing brother of a deaf sister with hearing parents, what I usually tell people is to learn sign language and get the cochlear. Forcing only cochlear on the child means that the family does not live in the deaf world with their child, while only speaking SL might distance them and cause them to miss out on a lot in the hearing world.

It reminds me of basque spain, where everyone speaks catalan and some people continue to speak euskera at home or with friends they know can speak.

[jborichevskiy]

This seems like a really thoughtful compromise, a meeting-in-the-middle that keeps optionality as open as possible for the child.

[aslyes25]

Hearing people always assume to make a good decision for any Deaf child by sharing the two worlds. Deaf child will always always be deprived with a lot of information. If parents learn sign language, it does not mean that they include a Deaf child in any kind of conversations. You chose not to listen to our life experience in the hearing world. We know what it is like to miss out a lot of information because you would not sign 24/7. If you sign, you would use voice at the same time. Simcom is not a language. Having a cochlear implant would not make him/her hearing. They will continue to struggle with all information

[plondon514]

edit: castellano not catalan