-Nine out of every 10 children born deaf are born to parents who can hear and only 10% of those families learn to communicate effectively with their child.
-2 to 3 of every 1000 children are born deaf.
-It is a challenge for deaf children to belong to the deaf community if they have hearing parents.
-Overall deaf kids do better the sooner they learn communication with the outside world.
If I had a deaf child I would love them just as much as if I had a hearing child. Honestly I would feel a little bad they couldn't hear because hearing is a beutiful thing, but I understand that to them it wouldn't be a loss, because they never knew what it was like to hear the first place. I am so thankful that I have my friend Fedex. She is deaf and if I had a deaf child I know she would help me though it.
Learning sign language as I am I think it wouldnt be too much of a challenge communicating with my child. I would absolutly have them learn sign. I would also teach them speech therapy as well as lip reading, I think its very important to have the ability to communicate with people who are not deaf and cannot sign. Whether or not my child wants to is up to him/her, but they have to have the ability to. Some people would go for a coclear implant. I would want my child to learn speech therapy, lip reading, and ASL before getting a coclear implant because if he/she becomes too relyant on it and then it stops working then my child needs to still have the ability to communicate with the outside world. If my child has learned all that and wants one then I would then consider getting one even though it isn't like real hearing.
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