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Mr_Huh
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I know of some that don't.
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No. I know of some who can only read lips.
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Most deaf people learn it unless they are made deaf by a stroke or something which affects their communication. Some sign language is easy to pick up because it looks like the world but there is also the sign language where you spell words out so have to know the alphabet in sign
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No. It needs to be learned. Going deaf or being born deaf doesn't automatically make you know sign language, although I suppose it stems from a more spontaneous form of communication. :/
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People who are born completely deaf will use a visual gesture system naturally, whether or not they attend a school that uses sign language. However, the range of hearing loss is similar to people who wear glasses : there are people who can see some and are legally blind, people who see little, and some who see nothing. People with impaired hearing can hear some, (or lose their hearing as adults) but not as much as most people : these people do not tend to use sign language. People who hear little may or may not use Sign, depending on what school they attend or who they socialize with. People who hear nothing at all, are actually few, but as a group, in Western countries, you will find a great majority of Sign users here, and gestural users in non-developed countries. I am in group 2, my family and friends are in group 3.
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I work with a girl that is deaf, she does wear hearing aides, because she isn't totally deaf, but she never learned sign. She speaks perfectly!!! Most people that don't know her, can't even tell she's deaf.
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You'd be surprised at the number of people that come into my work everyday that are deaf and don't speak sign language. I used to work with deaf handicapped people, so when we have deaf patients they always ask me to roughly translate. More often than not I just go in the room and talk to them because they read lips.
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