Spoken Words Vs. Sign Language

The problem of using a different wrench for the cochlear inner problem is a debate about which language a child should teach. A community of hearing impaired people wants children to speak only sign language, not being forced to speak like a hearing.

Many CI clinics believe that they never speak if children use sign language. New programs such as Koch combine sign language and spoken language.

"We encourage the use of sign language, its basic principle is that we are focusing on perfect children, and that it is important for us to hone their cognitive skills is.

"We want to understand the names of people in their environment and the emotional names they have, by understanding them" sky "and" perfect ". "

Often the level of reading comprehension of hearing impaired children and adults is lower than the level of hearing learners. Johnny Purkins University surgeon and cochlear implant specialist Dr. John Niparko stated that the average reading level for adults was fifth grade.

He said that part of the reason is that American sign language is a simple language compared to verbal or written English.

"In spoken English you can say, 'I am constantly doing something'. But in sign language, one person said. "

Harlane Lane, a supporter of the hearing impaired community, believes there is no definitive proof that the cochlear implant can achieve great benefits - mainly oral English

Other implant critics say that further research is needed to prove that CI is beneficial enough for hearing impaired children to use spoken and hearing counterparts words I will.

Executive director of the American Deaf Association, Sandy Harvey said the main problem is the lack of clear guidelines.

The hospital normally conducts a physical and psychological examination of the child before approval, but according to Harvey, the National Institutes of Health has yet to decide which children are unlikely to benefit from CI not.

Mr. Harvey said that some children continue to give up implants with CI instead of "star" patients, but choose to communicate completely with American sign language.

"Nobody wants to solve this problem," she said. "When parents try to find us by calling us, they are told that some children are more successful than others."

Petitto is trying to thoroughly study the listening language (English or French) and the sign language of the baby of the hearing impaired (American Sign Language, ASL, or Langue des Signes Québécoise, LSQ) and to find answers to these questions . Born for 48 months. The general view of the fundamentals of linguistic biology is that early language acquisition was related to language. The baby 's voice sound and the general rule of time and structure of the first sentence are considered to be evidence that the brain must adapt to perception and production. Speaking itself, live early. A common answer to the question "How did initial human language learning start?" Is that it is the result of the development of neuroanatomy and neurophysiological mechanisms involved in perception and utterance generation .

There is always a common misunderstanding that sign language is relying on words spoken to some extent: they are spoken words in symbolic form, or they are invented by listeners. The similarity of brain language processing between signatures and spoken words keeps this misunderstanding. Hearing impaired teachers such as Charles-Micheldel'Epée and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet are mistakenly called "Sign In" inventors. In contrast, sign language was developed by people who used them just like any other natural language.

As sign language develops, it occasionally borrows elements from spoken words, as all languages ​​borrow other languages ​​they touch. Sign language is used in various ways in various ways. In many sign language, manual letters (spelling of fingers) can be used in signing communication to borrow words from words spoken by spelling letters. This is often used for the correct names of people and places; especially if the stakeholders are somewhat bilingual, they are also used in certain languages ​​where symbols are not available at that time. Spelling your fingers may cause new symbols, such as initialization flags, when hands represent the first letter of spoken words that have the same meaning.