This is a question it seems not many people understood when I asked them. Are all people who cannot hear lose the ability to talk, or can someone be deaf while retaining their voice (or the other way around)?
2007-10-23 19:03:20 · 2 answers · asked by Twilight Elk 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ People with Disabilities
Not all deaf people are mute. My niece speaks very well and has been deaf since a child. But it takes a lot of training for a deaf person to learn to talk because if they have no reference for sound and they do not know how to form the sounds that make up the words. .
A person that has gone deaf after they have learned to talk can speak very well because they learned the sounds they must make to be able to speak.
2007-10-23 19:10:48 · answer #1 · answered by megan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some people are both mute and deaf, but many mute people are not deaf, and many deaf people are not mute. People who are born deaf do have trouble speaking because they cannot hear the sounds they are trying to imitate. Their speech is often slightly different from normal people's speech. The person who plays the deaf woman in the TV show Sue Thomas, FB Eye is actually deaf, and you can notice this difference in her speech if you listen closely. People like me, who became deaf as adults, speak normally. I read lips well, so it is difficult to tell I have a problem if I am close to the person I am talking to and the lighting is good. What usually gives me away is the attention I pay to the person's lips when someone talks to me. My speech sounds normal, other than the fact that I sometimes speak too loudly or too quietly.
2007-10-24 03:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No not all deaf people are mute or mute people deaf. Speech is possible because there are varying degrees of deafness. Our grandson who is 8yrs old became steadily more deaf since the day he was born and although he could talk not many people could understand him. Now tho, he has had a cochlear implant for approx a year and his speech has improved immensely. Our daughter's boyfriend's brother is mute but he can hear perfectly alright. Some people who are profoundly deaf can still speak, it depends on how much help they had when they were younger with speech therapy. Some people lose their hearing completely through illness or disease have the power of speech because they had it before. On the otherhand, there are people who are deafmute.
2007-10-24 00:39:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Many deaf people lose their hearing in the course of their lifetime, but will still have learned a language and be able to speak.
Those who are born deaf never learn to speak naturally, although they can be taught to reproduce the sounds of speech through rigorous training if they are inclined to take the time. (They'll never act in Shakespeare though.)
Likewise, some people become mute over the course of their lives. This may be the result of a stroke destroying the speech centers of the brain or of a degenerative nervous disease like MS or whatever Stephen Hawking has or by the loss of the tongue and/or voicebox to cancer or accident. They will still be able to hear though. (Unless the ears are damaged as well.)
2007-10-23 19:13:21 · answer #4 · answered by John F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone who is mute is not necessarily deaf. In fact many times they can hear just fine. They just lack the ability to make vocal noises for some reason or another. My friend is mute, and I can talk to her, and she talks back by typinjg on her laptop. She can also use sign, but she hears just fine.
Alternatively, there are many deaf people who can speak just fine. Obviously if you are completely deaf from birth with no idea of what sound is, you will not learn how to speak. Many form words with lips, but probably not sound... Or in some cases like this, or if you have very little hearing (but not enough to rely on) then you will learn how to use your voice, but you may not speak perfectly. Some deaf people can talk a little bit, but it's difficult to understand them because of the way they pronounce their words.
In short, No. Not all deaf people are mute, and not all mute people are deaf.
2007-10-24 02:58:07 · answer #5 · answered by i_come_from_under_the_hill 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Why Are People Deaf
2016-11-10 12:14:36 · answer #6 · answered by maglio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some deaf people can talk although it sounds a little strange because they cannot hear themselves. And definitely not all mute people are deaf.
2007-10-23 19:07:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
well not all deaf people are mute!actually some retain their capability to talk but most of the time they don't talk!but some people who are mute are not deaf!
2007-10-23 19:11:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anekdot_Vanessa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a friend who has a deaf brother. she said that her brother has the ability to talk. what makes they not talking is they do not know how to project the sound because they are not able to hear the sound of words we are making.
for those who have the ability to hear but not able to project the probably because they may have problems with their vocal cord. ( I'm not sure what make people mute). these people tend to imitate the sound they heard. that's why some of them sound weird while talking.
that's all i know and i hope it helped
2007-10-23 19:11:33 · answer #9 · answered by wanie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I've seen deaf people that could talk and vice versa.
2007-10-23 19:06:47 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋