" wrote by Simona Damian, it is says "just like spoken languages, sign languages are merged with the culture of the Deaf communities". ... And more than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents (Mitchell, Karchmer). ... This amazing statistics have a good impact in the deaf community. ... Hearing loss occurs worldwide to both genders of all ages and races. ... Both were curious about how people with hearing disease can comprehend language in the same way of the people who are capable of hearing understood it. ...

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Children and Bilingualism According to the 1990 United States Census, one in seven or 31.8 million people speak a language other than English in their home. In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority cu...

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Common characteristics associated with Down syndrome include cardiac complications, large tongue, low muscle tone, impaired hearing, vision problems, abnormal ear shape, large gap between first and second toes, and developmental delay. ... If both the parent and the child can understand each other, it will help social interactions within the community Researchers have seen a progressive decline in rate of development for children with Down syndrome and expect that participation in early intervention will slow that decline (Spiker and Hopmann, 1997). ...

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Children also produce speech by analogy, by hearing a sentence and using it to form other sentences. ... People living in communities where more than one language is spoken may require the acquisition of a second language. ...

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(Owens, 1996) Adults, in my discussion, are those who have past their puberty, and at the same time are not too old to deteriorate in memory span or hearing ability. ... For example, adults could learn a foreign language because they like the target culture, or they want to migrate to the community that speak the target language. ...

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