Deaf women Video

[tom2019]

Is it me or is anyone else thinking:

- How does a deaf person gain an american accent.

- How does a deaf person speak clearly like the one in the video.


Apparantly she was deaf all her life?

Maybe we a born with our accents...

[tank slapper]

Perhaps you could give some indication of what it is you are talking about?

[tom2019]

tank slapper said:

Perhaps you could give some indication of what it is you are talking about?

http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/1609...

[TheEnd]

Profoundly deaf isn't totally deaf.

[zac510]

It says she is profoundly deaf not entirely deaf.

[thetapeworm]

tank slapper said:

Perhaps you could give some indication of what it is you are talking about?

Pardon?

[nigel_bytes]

Sarah Churman was born deaf. At 29 years old, she had never heard the sound of her own voice until she received a hearing implant two months ago. Watch her incredible reaction when the device is activated and she hears herself for the first time:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/amazing-video-deaf...

[Matt Harper]

You detected an American accent from the two words she uttered?

[TheEnd]

"Sarah Churman was born deaf. At 29 years old, she had never heard the sound of her own voice until she received a hearing implant two months ago."

vs

"A 29-year-old woman has heard her own voice properly for the first time ever... ...had relied all her life on conventional hearing aids to make out basic sounds."

That's what happens when reporters try to improve on a story.

[ninja-lewis]

Sarah Churman on her blog said:

I have worked very hard to overcome and to speak well. I went to deaf ed school when I was very young, then on to public school where I took speech classes and therapy. I don't think people realize how intently I read lips. When you read lips, you are studying how people move their mouths, where they place their tongue (and for those of you with tongue rings, yes, you trip me up) and their teeth. It's a skill I have had 29 years to hone. People with accents are hard to read, they move their mouths a different way then us Americans do. People with facial hair throw me off constantly.

http://sarahchurman.blogspot.com/2011/10/q.html

I speak better than a few other people I know with less severe hearing losses. Education, support and how you're brought up (oralism or sign language) can make a big difference.