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Contemporary deaf education can favor one of three streams — sign language, MCE, and oralism — or a combination of two or all three.
Some opponents of MCE note that the use of MCE often occurs with an attempt to deny or replace the natural languages of the deaf community, which are seen as retarding the child's chances of acquiring of ' good English '.
Conversely, these opponents argue that to deny a deaf child access to a natural sign language is to deny the child access to language in general — that exposing a deaf child to an awkward, unnatural coding of an oral language is no substitute for fundamental natural language acquisition — and that a child must be fully exposed to natural language early in order have the best command of any language later.
( That is, a deaf child must be fully exposed to a sign language, and denying this exposure prevents the learning of language at the age when it is crucial for mental development.
In the manualism vs. oralism debate, some forms of MCE are opposed by oralists who believe that even manual English lessens the motivation for children to learn to speak and speechread.
Within the signing Deaf Community in the UK use of manually coded English in social settings outside of education is sometimes regarded as " old fashioned " and characteristic of older people ( who grew up during the repression of sign languages in the educational system ).
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