Since I am hearing impaired, how do I know to write?

Question

At my work, someone asked me about my deafness then impactly, he asked me, "how do you know to write?" I was like...wow good question and how do I know to write even when I couldn't hear?

Answer 1

Many if not most people "hear" language. It would be interesting to know if the deaf "hear" words as well, especially those who are deaf because of strictly problems with the ears or auditory nerve.

So the question is the way I understand it is understanding so many concepts which are integral to the concepts of language.

In answer we have no specific organ to gather abstract thought. We are able to predict and then discover means to visualize or hear many things that are beyond the ability of the eye or ear to percieve. The electron microscope is an example. We are not literally seeing DNA, we are seeing representations of DNA. If we had eyesight powerful enough to actually see the objects they would be different to our viewpoint. That we contrive a means to "see" such objects is a tribute to the adaptability of the human mind. We can concieve of worm holes in space, black holes, quantem physics, moleculer interactions and then use those principles. We cannot see lift but we use it every time a plane flies. We have contrived means to view the air currents that create lift and study them.

So a deaf person lacks the auditory cues that are used by people with normal hearing when it comes to learning written language. Blind people I suspect actually have a harder time with written language. Gesturing is an excellent building block for developing written language. Point at a desk and then spell the word out for example. You can put a blind person's hand on a desk easily enough but what about concepts like fire?

To me is not the aquisition of written language skills but the skill in which many deaf people learn to read lips. Given the variations in pronunciation, physical charactoristics of peope's faces, I'd think that learning to read lips would be a very difficult skill to master. More so many deaf people are able to pronounce even complex words extremely well despite the total lack of feedback. People with normal hearing often need that feedback to correct errors in pronunciation. Without that feedback it is difficult to understand how they can maintain such strong verbal skills. I've actually had conversations with deaf people and not realized it until I turned my head or my lips were otherwise obstructed making it impossible for the other person to see what I was saying. That to me is mind boggling. To be that proficient in verbal skills without hearing what you are saying.

So in short, being deaf just changes the cues used in the aquisition when compared to people with functional hearing and sight. Once the basic core vocabulary is aquired then new words can be easily described with other words. Some are likely difficult to explain at first. Being startled by a loud noise for example. However similer experiences can be extrapolated to understand concepts like music, volume and other concepts difficult to explain without ever having direct experience. The initial vocabulary is established with purely visual and tactile experience instead of visual, tactile and auditory experience. Some of the teaching methods designed for deaf of blind students might be more effective on all people and merits study in my opinion.

Answer 2

I think i may be misunderstanding the question. What does being hearing impaired have to do with writing. You dont have to hear to write anything. I am sure if you are taking notes on a lecture or something, they either do it in sign language or you are reading lips, so then you would obviously know what to write. I think the person at work that asked you that is just ignorant.

Answer 3

That used to be i'm seeing that at any time when i am going to films! I was pondering we ought to have a room for deaf/paying attention to impaired men and women nevertheless they do not look to be to be had. A few of you probably conscious of this nevertheless in my discipline the position the cinemas are, there are desires for deaf/listening to impaired men and women. They do have subtitles for deaf/listening to impaired folks nevertheless they do not look to be at the show due to the fact that men and women think it is distracting. Pathetic, eh? Now again to the subtitles, they furnish you with this reflector in an effort to installed a position wherein you preserve your bottle or soda in, and in addition you be taught the subtitles off the reflector. The position do subtitles come from? Essentially, it comes from the once more of the cinema. It is kind of like replicate. Think you probably placing your make up and making use of a replicate, and whilst you appear within the reflect, you'll discover stuff or participants behind you. Equal element for subtitles in cinemas in my discipline. I alternatively want they have got a room which probably for deaf/listening to impaired men and women nevertheless oh well. I believe the complete global must have the whole lot what deaf/listening to impaired needs. Oh good......... EDIT: The man or woman who spoke back approximately headphones. Good I went to a cinema and so they gave me a headphone, so i tried it on and it does now not paintings for the hell's sake! What the hell!?!?

Answer 4

Language is both a spoken and a written form of communication. Both forms have their own hurdles to overcome when learning, but either method can be learned regardless of one's ability to hear or see for that matter. A blind person can write with Braille

Answer 5

you can see right?