Another issue Deaf students must overcome is a limited vocabulary, compared to a student with typical hearing. Most Deaf students are not exposed to incidental learning, learning by overhearing conversations, radio, and television, etc. Since this limitation is in effect nearly all the time, the exposure to vocabulary is drastically lower than their hearing counterparts. Another advantage of being Deaf of Deaf is their access to language in the home, which exposes them to a variety of topics, but still these limitations are in effect out of the home and in mainstream environments. For Deaf children raised in a hearing family, it is only worse. The access to language is limited outside the home, as well as inside. Hearing children on the other
