None of the evidence from the research reported above would seem to justify the strong injunctions
placed by professional educators on the use of manual communication by parents of young deaf children. Children in this study who had been exposed to early manual communication performed at a higher level by almost every measure employed. This conclusion is not meant to discourage early oral training for deaf children. On the contrary, some evidence was reported to the effect that children who are most likely to be judged as having good communicative skills are those who were exposed to both oral and manual training at an early age.