if you are born deaf, how do you think do you hear words if you have never heard them before?

Question

it was just something i was wondering about

thank you


xxx vici

Answer 1

When I have asked my Deaf friends this question some say they see the words like building up pictures in the mind. This "seeing" can be like printed text or as a picture of the object(s). People with dyslexia may also think in pictures rather than just hear the words. Don't know if that helps.

Ali

Answer 2

That's a good question, and I'm not sure anybody knows the answer. Can deaf people hear inside their heads, like blind people can see inside their heads?
It could be they associate words with a visual image or the movement a mouth makes when it speaks the word.

Answer 3

If a person is born deaf and never hears then they have no concept of sound. What you are trying to envisage cannot be done. Deaf people can. however, feel vibrations, probably in a more sensitive way that those who hear normally. If you want a simile then try to imagine that 'normal' people have x-ray vision but that you haven't. Your question then would be 'How would you visualise x-ray vision if you have never had it?'

Answer 4

You dont HEAR words if you are DEAF....if you mean how do they process the words in their head...its just like we associate a word (sound) with an object or feeling etc... they simply associate a SIGN to it...your question didnt make much since so I dunno how much since my answers gonna make...haha.

Answer 5

don't know