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To the Editor: The editorial by Dr. Balkany on cochlear implants (Jan. 28 issue)¹ makes outdated and incorrect assertions about American Sign Language and the education of deaf children. Dr. Balkany claims that Public Law 99-457 mandates treatment for hearing loss. It actually mandates access to public education. In the case of deaf children, access can mean not only mechanical aids to increase hearing, but also visual instruction using a natural signed language.

Dr. Balkany cites a 1977 article by one of us² to compare a hearing five-year-old's vocabulary of 5000 to 26,000 words with a deaf child's vocabulary of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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