Cloggy
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When the child is deaf, learning to speak is very difficult.. as many deaf people here have explained from their own experiences. The first thing that a parent and child need to establish is communication. A visual language is very important to establish communication.
Signlanguage e.g. is a beautiful language to use. Deaf or hearing..
For those children that are born deaf, a visual language like sign-language or cued speech, is definitely the way to go. However, when the child starts to hear; listning & speaking will follow.
For the children implanted as early as they do nowadays, speech becomes a natural (first) way of communication. If the parents can manage to let the child grow up with speech and sign, thats wonderful..
Research has shown that the first couple of years in a child's life are the most important for establishing speech.. When parents have made the decision to let the child hear, this period is when you want the child to be exposed as much as possible to speech...
The visual language is great to use in the transit period between deafness and hearing, but with the parents not being able to be a rolemodel for the child, sign will get to the background as speech improves...
Especially when one has in mind that the visual language can be mastered later in life..
But here's the question.....
How many adults here have learned to speak fluently later in life... and how many have learned to sign fluently later in life?
I think the latter are in the vast majority..
Signlanguage e.g. is a beautiful language to use. Deaf or hearing..
For those children that are born deaf, a visual language like sign-language or cued speech, is definitely the way to go. However, when the child starts to hear; listning & speaking will follow.
For the children implanted as early as they do nowadays, speech becomes a natural (first) way of communication. If the parents can manage to let the child grow up with speech and sign, thats wonderful..
Research has shown that the first couple of years in a child's life are the most important for establishing speech.. When parents have made the decision to let the child hear, this period is when you want the child to be exposed as much as possible to speech...
The visual language is great to use in the transit period between deafness and hearing, but with the parents not being able to be a rolemodel for the child, sign will get to the background as speech improves...
Especially when one has in mind that the visual language can be mastered later in life..
But here's the question.....
How many adults here have learned to speak fluently later in life... and how many have learned to sign fluently later in life?
I think the latter are in the vast majority..
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