Realization

I began to realize when Kalei and I were signing, we would talk kind of too just like "oops haha that's not what I meant" and just phrases like that. Deaf people don't get to just talk while they are signing. For us signing is like a game, its something we enjoy doing for fun. I can’t imagine what it would be like to never really talk, and have sign language be your way of communication. I'm sure sign language isn't "fun" to people who have to use it everyday of their life to communicate. Deaf children who have deaf parents learn sign language like any other child would grow up learning there language. But have you ever thought about the children that don't have deaf parents, and there parents don't know they are deaf when they are born. For a deaf child with hearing parents who have no prior experience with ASL, language may be acquired differently. In fact, learned 9 out of 10 children who are born deaf are born to parents who hear. Some hearing parents choose to introduce sign language to their deaf children. Hearing parents who choose to learn sign language often learn it along with their child. Surprisingly, children who are deaf can learn to sign quite fluently from their parents, even when their parents might not be perfectly fluent themselves. Research suggests that the first few years of life are the most crucial to a child’s development of language skills, and even the early months of life can be important for establishing successful communication. So deaf people don't necessarily "have it rough" they adapt to there language just like we adapt to ours.