Deaf people...

[~max~]

Hi all...I wasn't sure which category to put this in...I couldn't sleep last night, and as usual, my mind started wandering into strange territories...Ooooo errr....lol

Something really puzzles me...How do deaf people wake up on time in the morning?

Sorry if this is stupid/obvious...

[Ethel]

Deaf children learn sigh language - which incudes the alphabet.

So tjhey know how to spell before hearing children (usually).

From learning the alphabet in sign language it is fairly straightforward to teach the written alphabet - it is simply a symbol that represents each letter eventually chained into words.

Of course,deaf children can face the same obstacles as hearing children - dyslexia and so on - but on the whole,deaf children learn to read and write quickly and easily, partly out of necessity.