Currently doctors are permitted to discuss the intrusive medical Cochlear Implant procedure with the parents of deaf and hearing impaired infants but not the use of American Sign Language as a life option. The implant is not guaranteed to work, but they must burn out the auditory nerve completely to install this device which puts a device into the head that is an easy point of entry for Bacterial meningitis, The ASL deaf community is a robust cultural group with as much opportunity and happiness as the hearing without the need to remove part of the brain and implant a foreign object in your child's skull.



