Under normal communication conditions, this occurs naturally. Roots offers an interesting perspective. They regard theirs as a problem created by society's prejudicial attitudes towards deafness rather than by their deafness itself. The bottom line is that signing Deaf persons tend to have more control over their own lives and to hold views that are more or less independent of their parents', while oral deaf persons tend to have less control and to be more conforming to their parents' views.
Roots explores the difficulties facing families with oral or signing deaf children.
Both oral and signing deaf persons still continue to be marginalized in a hearing world - the former through their own inherent powerlessness and the latter through their emphasis on their difference. In other words, true and full integration into the hearing world continues to remain an elusive goal for the vast majority of deaf persons. Roots observes that parents of oral deaf children become politically astute and effective, especially in regard to getting services and support for their children while signing Deaf persons have been effective in improving access to the hearing world for a wide variety of deaf persons, including oral deaf persons, such as captioned movies and television, interpreting services, human rights issues, message relay centres, post-secondary education, and so on. The fact that deaf persons, both oral and signing, are allowed to hold drivers' licenses today is the result of the work of signing Deaf persons many years ago. The Supreme Court of Canada's landmark ruling in the medical interpreting case last fall was the culmination of a seven-year battle by signing Deaf persons.