Since the parents cannot hear, they would use sign language to their child... if the child CAN hear but he does not hear any spoken language from the time he is born, would he only speak sign language? Which language would he learn?
2007-01-23 15:48:18 · 13 answers · asked by Kendra 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
1) deaf people can speak
2) he'd learn sign language and spoken language
3) he'd hear tv/radio
4) he'd have other family members who are not deaf
5) he'd go to school and orally communicate there
2007-01-23 15:51:26 · answer #1 · answered by pinwheelbandit 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This happens more often than you might think. Usually there is a speaking and hearing person near as the baby becomes an infant and then a child with all his senses. The child must learn sign language or another form of communication with it's parents but he also learns...in pre-school and in school programs..to speak and understand the spoken word.
However, in one case of which I am aware, the children of a deaf and mute couple were put up for adoption by caring parents in hope their children would have what society believes to be a better life.
The person I am acquainted with who had deaf and mute parents was sorry he could not remain with them but realized the necessity to go to foster parents. He was not particularly affected by the facts of his early years and the change to a hearing and oral communication society.
2007-01-23 16:01:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If he only was exposed to sign, that is what he would learn. That's not the case in modern society though. A hearing child will be exposed to both sign and whatever language others are using around him. It's unlikely that the family of the death parents will all be deaf as well. Most children are also exposed to babysitters and hearing relatives. He or she will learn multiple languages.
2007-01-23 15:52:33 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marriage between two Deaf people isn't all that uncommon at all. And most of them do have hearing children. These kids grow up with sign as their first, or mother, language, and are generally great at spoken English too. Many of them go on to become skilled sign language interpreters, and make some of the best ones! I know because I've used those CODA terps before myself. -Yes, I'm Deaf too.
2007-01-23 16:09:56 · answer #4 · answered by BuddyL 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the children will learn the speak in sign language but the child will also learn english. deaf people can talk to but alot of them think that they were born that way for a reason so they will teach there kids to talk in sign language. but being in a mostly hearing world the children will learn to speak english also, signing as there primary language.
2007-01-23 15:59:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The child certainly would learn sign language from his parents, but he would probably learn spoken language too. Children do not only learn language from their parents, but from other people (including other children) that they are exposed to. So, assuming that the child lives under normal circumstances, he/she will probably learn spoken language from other people around him, especially other kids at preschool and so forth. This child will be bilingual, in the strictest sense of the word, having two native languages (the sign language and the spoken language).
2007-01-23 16:33:32 · answer #6 · answered by drshorty 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. It might be like that movie Nell with Jodie Foster (she is found living up the wilds when her mother dies - she speaks a strange language and then they realise that she actually learnt it by completely being isolated up there and only speaking like her mother who had a speech impediment). I guess a deaf child would be very good at sign language but if they naturally began to do baby gurgling - they would learn to speak if the parents were considerate enough to ensure their baby had access to child-care or others who could speak.
2007-01-23 15:55:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This actually happened to a couple in my neighborhood. Neither one of the couple could hear, but there three children could all hear. They talked to the parents with sign language, to their school mates just as other children do. Did not seem to make any difference in their upbringing, except they seemed more mature, they would help the parents answer any questions when they had their income tax done, things like that.
2007-01-23 15:55:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anne2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deaf people can speak. Some parents can eventually learn to speak at a earlier age or get a hearing aid to help them speak. The child would learn sign language and another spoken language such as English, Spanish, etc to help communicate be between deaf to non-deaf people, in this case would be his parents and his parents friends.if the parents did have a hearing child their son/daughter would eventually go to a school and orally communicate there.
2007-01-23 15:53:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well both of my mates parents are deaf and so is her sister. She is the only one who can hear. But she can speak perfect english, i guess she grew up with other people teaching her how to speak. She can also use sign lanuage
2007-01-23 15:54:26 · answer #10 · answered by traven_blood 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋