Deafness is a common disability where the affected person cannot hear. In some cases, a deaf person might lack the ability to hear but still be able speak. However, some experience difficulty in both speaking and hearing and they are commonly referred to as deaf-mute people. In many cases, deaf people have difficulties mastering language because of their lack of hearing ability. Hence, they cannot communicate even in their parents’ first language.
There are cases of deaf people who have a certain degree of speaking ability. These people can attempt to talk but choose not to because their atypical voices attract attention, making them uncomfortable and discouraging them from speaking. In addition, they cannot control their tones since they lack hearing ability leaving them with a narrowed option of communicating using sign language. Cochlear, a small but complex electronic device implanted into a person’s ear considered profoundly deaf, has faced some backlash despite an attempt to correct this disorder. Some experts argue that it tramps the user between the deaf and hearing worlds, making it hard for them to adapt to these devices.
Despite the hearing disability, deaf people get married and raise families. People belonging to this family will experience various communication carriers before they master their communication style. When you consider a hearing child of a deaf parent, they have difficulty learning from their parents to communicate effectively and grow with the childcare practices advice. Explaining good morals from parent to the child will be difficult at an earlier age before they understand sign language. The same challenges are experienced when a child is deaf and parents have normal hearing ability (Duncan and O’Neill). In an attempt to end the deaf disorders in generations to come, Alexander Graham Bell warned the mass against marrying deaf people. He feared contamination of the human race despite statistics showing that most deaf people were born to hearing parents.
Work Cited
Duncan, Jill, and Rachel O’Neill. “Person-First, Identity-First and the Language of Deafness.” Deafness & Education International, vol. 22, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1-2, doi:10.1080/14643154.2020.1720204.