2006-12-07 21:30:30 · 9 answers · asked by venkatraman s 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Deaf and Dumb - actually there is no one born as deaf and dumb. They are all only deaf. Born deaf people are unable to speak because they have never heard any sound and enjoyed it. with out learning how they can talk or express. So born deaf people are considered as dumb. If a way could be found to their hearing possible they will automatically learn to speak for which physically ther is no stopping.
Now the term deaf and dumb has been changed as "DEAF AND MUTE" as their voice is muted for no fault of theirs. -
2006-12-07 22:29:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
it IS possible to be dumb and not deaf. It happens in a very small amount of casses that there is damage to the area of the brain that controlls some aspect of speech and so the patient can hear but not speak. It's rare though.
More usual is a patient, born congenitally deaf, that then doesn't learn to make speech sounds as a result of not being able to hear those sounds. Such people can ofcourse be taught to speak with a variety of techniques.
People that lose the faculty of hearing later in life normally retain the ability to speak.
2006-12-07 22:31:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, I know (hope) you are using "dumb" to mean "mute", and although the definition of dumb includes "unable to speak", the original, and most common meaning of the word is "lacking intelligence", so please do not use that word to refer to mute people. Secondly, there are actually more hearing mute people than deaf mute people (although there are some deaf and mute people).
Most people born deaf are capable of speech, they just don't have a model to base speech on because they can't hear it. On the other hand, someone who is mute can hear the speech, but there is something that makes them unable to produce it. I worked in a classroom of deaf children, but there was one boy in there who was mute (he was put in the class so he could learn sign language). All the deaf kids "spoke" (some could be understood, some couldn't, but they all produced sounds), but the 1 hearing boy was the only one who didn't speak.
2006-12-08 04:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by seasonsoflove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to hear the sound so that you could imitate and produce the same kind of sound. A child learn the art of speech, by imitating the sound produced by the mother and others. If the child is born deaf, he/she will have occasion for learning the speech.
2006-12-07 22:38:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sign language is enormously plenty comparable to the different language, it varies from u . s . to u . s . or maybe has it somewhat is own "accessory" interior of areas of each and every u . s .. by employing it somewhat is totally nature of being a seen language that's amazingly attainable that somebody from Russia could understand areas of what somebody from the united kingdom replaced into attempting to talk yet they actually would not understand the full of the which potential.
2016-12-30 03:21:22 · answer #5 · answered by goldie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that was a long time ago when they use
to say are you deaf and dumb.
people would make an assumption that if
you were deaf you were dumb.
2006-12-07 21:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by popo dean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every individual is different.
Dumb is not a nice word.
2006-12-07 22:45:17 · answer #7 · answered by *JC* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF HE IS DEAF BY BIRTH. HE WILL BE DUMB. BUT AFTER HE HAS BECOME DEAF. HE WILL NOT BE DUMB.
2006-12-11 17:58:16 · answer #8 · answered by RAMAN IOBIAN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he/she has not heard any sound and had nothing to imitate in her/his life... thats why....
2006-12-07 21:33:33 · answer #9 · answered by bugi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋