Research has shown that deaf people are able to learn a sign language, such as ASL, significantly faster than the non-deaf learn spoken language. My first education happened in a car! We were sitting in the backseat, with my dad on my left and my mom on the right.
My uncle was doing the driving. My parents showed me how to sign those pictures in the book like animals, trees, etc. After one week, I had learned enough signs that we were signing normally as if we were together since I was born. Sign Languages are not often written due to the incredibly complexity of trying to replicate the non-sequential nature of signing.
This non-sequential nature of sign languages allows for faster and more detailed communication, but has the drawback of being ridiculously hard to put into print, though attempts have been made.
In other words, they generally hang out with and associate with hearing people, even though they are medically deaf. The article was originally published on Today I Found Out. Featured Image Source: Visual Hunt. Stay updated with all the insights. Navigate news, 1 email day. Subscribe to Qrius.
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I wasn't born deaf but I did lose my hearing and memory when I became sick with spinal meningitis at age of 2. Previously I had vocabulary of estimated words so that may have subconsciously aided development of my inner-monologue.
My inner-monologue might seem strange so I would like to give a little story first. I've learn to read lips and speak English long before going to school where I would later learn S. I did learn a new way to communicate which is through facial expressions and body language; eventually zeroed in to the lips which was doing the most movements. That is what I couldn't figure out at the time while everything else was easy. For example, an angry face on my father was seen after I was stopped from shooting his friend with bb gun for fun meant great disapproval regardless of how his lips moved.
Eventually I began to understand how to read lips through series of events and I do suspect speech therapy played a role because I had to copy their lips in order to better articulate words. If I imagine another person talking, it is always my voice that I feel while talking whilst having detailed mind of how to spell each and every words being said. And I am at the same time imagining their lip movements. It's almost as if I am reliving the situation, the temperature, the weather, the emotions, people walking by, etc.
Sorry, I rarely tell stories and I am lazy when it comes to structuring English to improve understanding for readers so I hope it was understandable. Mom wasn't born deaf but she did become deaf at an early age.
So most of her inner monologue is mostly Russian but then with ASL signs sprinkled in. For clarification why Russian she was born in Russia and that is why her inner monologue is in Russian. Also she can speak Russian very fluently and is able to read Russian from another person's lips. Which is how she talks with my grandmother Great question btw!
I was born hearing but lost it right after birth from medication that saved my life. I can wear headphones without hearing aids to listen to music, but it usually has to be at max to hear any words and I miss a lot of the higher instruments.
Anyway, I learned English and I'm actually pretty adept at learning languages in general. My ASL is just terrible because I never use it. So my inner monologue is in English, but I don't hear it as much as kind-of feel it some times.
It's not like I'm making the clear sounds because I can't even hear all of the sounds of English. It's just silent words that I guess are being said. It's hard to explain. Funny thing, I asked a mute friend a pretty similar question.
Pretty much, there's something there but it's not exactly subtitles from what she stated. I'm deaf. I was born with a serious hearing loss. I grew up in a deaf school until I was transferred to a mainstreamed public school with hearing students in my 7th grade.
I guess deaf people's thinking process is little different from hearing people. Also, we don't always have a sign for every word in ASL. Sometimes when we want to think of a word that we don't have a sign. We fingerspell it. It's like imagining a letter by letter but only in hand shapes. I think in fingerspelling a lot when I'm reading an english sentence. I'm lucky to be conditioned to think in fingerspelling while reading because there are a lot of deaf people who have problem with reading and writing because they are thinking in signs while reading an english sentence.
ASL language don't use articles like "a, an, the" and several more important words in the english language like "is, are, was, are" etc in their sentences. So when they read an english sentence, they are skipping those important english words when they're signing in their minds.
So, I think that is why deaf people are typically bad at reading and writing in english. I was one of them until I transferred to a mainstreamed school for better education that taught me to read and write properly. I'm still not great with english language but I'm glad that I'm much better at it than most deaf people. I hope this answered your question well. Myths have been around for centuries. As soon as humans were able to tell stories, we have had mythology.
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That's an entirely different disorder. People who are born deaf experience language differently than those who are born hearing sounds. Without the ability to hear, many deaf people rely on their sight to communicate. Learning language through sight also affects the way that a person thinks.
Most deaf people tend to think in images that represent their preferred communication style. If you want to learn more about how to be an advocate for the deaf community, visit the National Association of the Deaf for more resources. The difference between being hard of hearing and being deaf lies in the degree of hearing loss.
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