Was browsing for old threads... happened to come across this one again. Late replies, but better late than never...
Is the sign language tough? How long does it take you, to learn it?
Well, Sign Language was the first language I learned, so I'm sure it took me as long as it did for you to learn your own initial language. For later vocabulary, it sort of went hand-in-hand. I learn new English words, then learn the signs for them.
There are occasionally different "local signs" for certain words though - one of the most annoying things about sign language is that I always had to change a few signs that I had gotten into the habit of signing, whenever I moved to a new state. Even within America, it's really not an universal language at all, which is annoying XD
There're a lot of people who take ASL (american sign language) at my school, and they say it's not that hard.
Not that hard... BUT easy to forget. Gotta keep in practice somehow.
Without hearing aids, can people who were born deaf hear themselves speak? This has been bothering me since I was soo little. One more, if one were to born deaf and can't hear anything at all, is it highly likely that he would be mute also since he can't hear others, don't know what words sound like , and therefore cannot make the sound of the words?
Yes, this may sound very ignorant, but I'm very curious, I've always been, since I was so little, I've also asked my dad about this a lot of times but he can't give me the answer.
Well, my deafness was so profound that, I guess, hearing aids were difficult for me - they did warn me whenever there was a sound, but I could never tell what it was, where it came from, etc. Though, of course, I would know that the sounds were coming from myself when I was making them, since, what else could it be? XD
Huh. I wouldn't have thought I'd see a thread like this on here. I'm mostly deaf myself (There's none in my right ear and probably a 75% loss in my left). Sign language has been a bit of a struggle for me simply because the town I live in is very small. I haven't really ran into anyone else who needs it or uses it, so I don't get much practice.
Yeah, I've always had that problem myself since middle school. I'm lucky to have parents who learned sign language themselves as well, because otherwise I would probably have forgotten it all by now, I bet.
May I ask if it you became deaf before or after the Implants? There's been discussion about me getting them, but only as a last resort o_o;
It is pretty much the last resort, but they're getting better and better, apparently, every five years. It may come to a point where there won't be any deafness anymore.
I don't have implants myself (and I'm glad I refused because at the time implants sucked, to be frank) - just because I didn't like the idea of having something stuck inside my head, and I was pretty much used to being deaf and I was always able to handle it well, and I didn't really see hearing as being that important in my life. It really depends on whether you believe that it could help your life to a great extent, or whether it'll be just the same ol same.