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Old 01-18-2008, 01:15 PM   #96 (permalink)
Cheri
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Originally Posted by shel90 View Post
Cuz deaf kids can't hear so speech and spoken language isn't fully accesible to them or so what I thought?
Deaf children do not need to hear with their ears to be taught speech. You should know that we rely more on our vision in a sense we hear with our eyes. There is a mirror in speech therapy where deaf children can look at themselves to pronounce words and the sounds of each begin letter of a word. They are capable to understand speech by placing a hand to their throat and their mouth and the speech therapist's mouth and throat too.

Yes it is gonna get very difficult to learn but they can do it all they have to do is try harder.
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