Reading and Sound
Cosmic Question #2:
How do the hearing impaired learn to read? I'm not trying to be rude, I'm really curious, because if you think about it how did you learn to read?
I learned through connecting certain symbols (letters) with sounds my throat, and then my mind, would make. So does someone who is hearing impaired, and I'm talking severely enough to not be able to hear at all, have to hold their hand to someone else's throat and mouth? Like Helen Keller?
It would be rather rotten to not be able to read in this world, especially if you were missing one of your senses on top of it. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be, but then again I love the written word. So taking the power of literacy away from me would be as bad as taking one of my five senses.
Anyway, I was mulling that over the other morning and decided it was a perfect cosmic question.
How do the hearing impaired learn to read? I'm not trying to be rude, I'm really curious, because if you think about it how did you learn to read?
I learned through connecting certain symbols (letters) with sounds my throat, and then my mind, would make. So does someone who is hearing impaired, and I'm talking severely enough to not be able to hear at all, have to hold their hand to someone else's throat and mouth? Like Helen Keller?
It would be rather rotten to not be able to read in this world, especially if you were missing one of your senses on top of it. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be, but then again I love the written word. So taking the power of literacy away from me would be as bad as taking one of my five senses.
Anyway, I was mulling that over the other morning and decided it was a perfect cosmic question.
Comments
I would imagine even hearing people who learn sign are somehow relating the symbols to an auditory sensation. Perhaps that is why babies can communicate with signs before they can talk. For a deaf person an object would be mentally related to a sign. For me, an object, is related to a word or sound. I'm curious if their synaptic networks would be different because of this. It is a very interest topic.
I guess if you really think about it even the art of sign language would have to be accomplished this way.
Which is pretty much what you teach a baby when you teach them to sign... or even speak.
Eth- interesting point about english being a foreign language, you are probably right.