There is a world of difference between being deaf and…not hearing. We all know someone who is and we take it for granted that they adapt to the hearing world: they lip-read, they sign. But do we really know what it is like to grow up in a world of silence, with no notion that there are people who can hear? How does a deaf person discover that people communicate through sounds, that the shaping of lips they see produces words and communication?

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