What language do people who were born deaf think in?

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Depends on degree of deafness. who presents some hearing level and established the language Portuguese how your communication code will think in Portuguese. Those who were born 100% deaf, but educated with sign language, will think with gestures made to send each message.

– Who created sign language for the deaf?

“By purchasing the sign languagethe deaf person starts to associate images with signs, in the same way that the listener associates images with speech sounds”, explains Olga Freitas, postgraduate coordinator in Special Education at UCB. As for those who have never been exposed to sign language, it is not known exactly how your brain works in terms of language. «Sometimes language development is so rudimentary that it’s almost instinctive: hunger, thirst, desire to sleep,» he says. Osmar Netootorhinolaryngologist and professor at FCMSCSP.

CONSULTANCY: Ivani Rodrigues Silva and Maria Cecília Lima, professors of speech therapy at Unicamp, and Osmar Clayton Person, professor of otorhinolaryngology at Faculdade de Medicina do ABC.

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