Children of Deaf Adults
Growing up can have its own challenges and struggles for anyone. Can you image if you were completely different and couldn’t ever relate to those around you. All kids go through many different challenges while growing up. Within the Deaf community 90 % of Deaf Adults have hearing children. These kids are called CODA. There isn’t a lot of information regarding studies about hearing children with Deaf parents. So I’ll begin by explaining the roles and relationships the hearing children have with their Deaf parents, their language developments, and identity issues.
A relationship between a hearing child and a Deaf adult is different in a lot of ways. The biggest is that there is more responsibility that is put on the child. …show more content…
They both will be experiencing different things in the community and have different problems the other cannot relate. There is also a sense of sadness on both sides that they are not the same. We as humans desire the sense of acceptance and similarity that without it there is this empty space there that neither can fill.
Parenting skills of a Deaf adult to a hearing child is also challenging in its own way as well. There are many instances where the child will take advantage of the parents deafness and use it their advantage. There are also behavioral issues that will be struggling to handle since there is that lack of understanding that was mentioned earlier. According to the Gallaudet documents there are a lot of resources out there to get help for the parents when it comes to a lot of these struggles.
The language benefit of being a CODA is that they get to be a part of the Deaf world becoming fluent in Sign Language. Usually they are also able to learn how to speak English at the same time. Sometimes learning English however is very difficult when younger. They can develop some speech issues due to not having the proper education and exposure while growing up in a non-speaking world. However they can overcome this with the proper education.
Growing up can have its own challenges and struggles for anyone. Can you image if you were completely different and couldn’t ever relate to those around you. All kids go through many different challenges while growing up. Within the Deaf community 90 % of Deaf Adults have hearing children. These kids are called CODA. There isn’t a lot of information regarding studies about hearing children with Deaf parents. So I’ll begin by explaining the roles and relationships the hearing children have with their Deaf parents, their language developments, and identity issues.
A relationship between a hearing child and a Deaf adult is different in a lot of ways. The biggest is that there is more responsibility that is put on the child. …show more content…
They both will be experiencing different things in the community and have different problems the other cannot relate. There is also a sense of sadness on both sides that they are not the same. We as humans desire the sense of acceptance and similarity that without it there is this empty space there that neither can fill.
Parenting skills of a Deaf adult to a hearing child is also challenging in its own way as well. There are many instances where the child will take advantage of the parents deafness and use it their advantage. There are also behavioral issues that will be struggling to handle since there is that lack of understanding that was mentioned earlier. According to the Gallaudet documents there are a lot of resources out there to get help for the parents when it comes to a lot of these struggles.
The language benefit of being a CODA is that they get to be a part of the Deaf world becoming fluent in Sign Language. Usually they are also able to learn how to speak English at the same time. Sometimes learning English however is very difficult when younger. They can develop some speech issues due to not having the proper education and exposure while growing up in a non-speaking world. However they can overcome this with the proper education.