With today’s technology more and more children are being diagnosed with a hearing loss up to the age of eighteen months old. This being such an early detection the child is able to go into speech therapy right away and have a greater chance of learning English. Some

children are not so lucky however. The ability to learn a language fluently ends when a child hits puberty. After that, it is incredibly hard for the child to acquire the language.

f children who are born to hearing adults. This is incredibly hard for the children as well as he/her parents. “Most parents do not like to accept their child has a disability” (Keeny, Rodney) It is very hard for a parent to understand that their child is “different”. “Only nine out of ten parents of deaf children actually learn sign language.” (Keeny, Rodney) Because of this, there is not much parent/child communication in the household. Many parents try and find a special school for their child and often times it is a school that is out of town. The deaf child is sent to that school to live in a dormitory like setting, only coming home on some weekends and holidays. The children’s only family then become those who reside at the institution. Not all are so unfortunate. There are those parents out there who

I reiterate, not all children are lucky enough to have the time needed with their parents, so thankfully, there are some schools in the United States that compensate for those children. In the early nineteenth century, American School for the Deaf, also known as ASD

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