According to Meier (1991), “More than 90 percent of prelingually deaf children are born to hearing parents” (p. 4). A deaf child with hearing parents lacks exposure of spoken language and sign language. Due to this, these children are usually at a disadvantage in language development. Evidence has indicated that when these situations are present, deaf children invent their own gestural system in order to communicate. According to Meier (1991), Susan Goldin-Meadow found deaf children creating their own gestural language: In this study, none of the parents of the 10 deaf children used sign language to communicate. This study observed children from 13 months to 4 years of age with no progress in English. Parents communicated with their children
