I disagree with the findings. I had found that an oralist education had deprived me of a social life and destroyed my scientific education with the result I have suffered depression and unable to pursue a scientific education. The findings are flawed because they only relate to laboratory conditions and not the real world scenario. Hearing people have always wanted the Deaf to be like then and have constantly refused to adopt the social model of Disability and to embrace a different world to their own. I used to be a strong oralist advocate and now a strong bsl user. I have become so much happier being within the Deaf Community and have ceased mental health issues as a result. BSL has given me better employment and social life prospects. The scores would be artificially higher because the children have been forced to do so and the study never looks at the long term implications of oralism and the feelings of the Deaf children. It is obsessed with speech and not the bigger picture. The situation is particularly distorted. I was oralist and gained a 2.2 at uni because I couldnt follow the lecturer despite speech to text reporting. Throw in a BSL interpreter and I nearly gained a distinction for my Masters. BSL really makes a difference. I get so fed up from hearing from Teachers of the Deaf who say I have got beautiful speech. Does that give me a better quality of life - no. It only suits the bloody hearing people around me and not myself. The only hearing people that I interact with are sign language users themselves. Oralism had damaged my employment prospects. I am now long term unemployed. I have used BSL at an early age I would probably be a Team Leader in the Civil Service now. Oralism destroys deaf people lives.