Deaf girl hears sound for the first time

Yeah but she has tattoos, she must be a trashy whore!

Seriously though, that was cool. That woman's job must be so emotionally fulfilling, that was so awesome to see the girl just blown away at something we take for granted every day like that.
 
that's pretty moving, with all that music does for me i can't imagine what it would be like to be deaf

did she like just start using a hearing aid or something? when she said it was beeping i assumed it was a hearing aid but it looked different, and i don't understand why somebody would be deaf all their life and not get a hearing aid before 29
 
im impressed with how well she speaks. normally deaf people talk like they have a dick in their mouth. quoted from the roast of trump
 
This might be a retarded question, but how can she understand people so quickly?

I know deaf people can read lips, but she has her hand over her eyes when the lady says "can you hear me?" and she immediately nods yes. Wouldn't talking just seem like random noises at first?
 
my sister is deaf- has a bunch of her friends who have had the cochlear done and it all depends- my sister can talk perfect just because everyone else in our family is hearing- people from all deaf families usually cant talk as well and take forever to adapt

plus the girl pictured here has taken classes and therapy so that when they turn it on its as little a transition as possible-
sister is getting hers done when she has kids- until then shes fine with being deaf
 
no no that's not what i'm saying.

the older woman asks the deaf girl "can you hear me?" But the deaf girl has her hands covering her eyes, yet she nods yes right away as though she perfectly understood the woman (even though she wasn't even looking at her, or it doesn't appear that way at least). So what I'm saying is, how the hell would she already know what words sound like?
 
some possibilities:

1. she nodded without understanding

2. she could somehow read the lips of the nurse (maybe through cracks of her fingers...or something)

3. she's heard the english language enough to understand 'can you hear me' which would really make this video much less cool

but yeah i get what you're saying...it would be like a blind man being able to read green eggs and ham...interesting point.
 
Well think about it, we think in english. even when we are not speaking we think in english, she probably thinks in english then translates it into sign language so even though she hasnt technically "heard" english before, she probably speaks hears and understands it just fine audibly (once enabled)
 
haha no...

we only think in english because we've HEARD english. we wouldn't 'talk' in our mind if we didn't know what english sounded like. if you've only read english your entire life but never heard it, you wouldn't be able to understand somebody who is speaking in english if you weren't reading their lips.

one of the primary theories as to why we don't have memories as a baby (aside from our brains not being that developed) is that the memories are encoded differently since we don't know english, and once we learn english (and encode memories in english) we lose the ability to recall those early memories.
 
ok, my brother is deaf and has a cochlear implant so hopefully i can shed some light on this situation...

First off, she speaks FAR FAR too well to have been entirely deaf before receiving the implant. My brother received a cochlear implant at the age of 18 months (he is 21) and his speech is about on par, maybe a bit better than hers, thats almost 20 years of having had an implant. (people ask him if he is a foreign student before they realize he is deaf, haha)

Over the years he has received several upgrades in technology which have allowed him to hear exponentially better with each upgrade. THIS is what i'm assuming this girl got. He described it as life changing, like going from listening to robots to listening to actual people. being able to hear minute differences in tone, pitches he could never hear before. I could see how such an upgrade would bring on a surge of emotions, obviously my brother was pumped in a not bawl your eyes out sort of way, but it makes sense that she would.

sparknotes: impossible for this girl to hear sound for the first time and process it and speak fluently. VERY possible that she received a life changing upgrade to the range of sounds she can hear.

 
yeah somebody said that she apparently had some sort of previous hearing device that allowed her to hear something similar to the sounds you were describing. makes sense
 
That is so sick! There was this girl who went to my highschool whose mom, dad, brother and sister were all deaf but she could hear perfectly.
 
I think the difference is as a baby you also can't talk or speak sign language. deaf people can talk they often just have trouble with pronunciation. Her's is very good, probably from therapy and being told if she sounds right or wrong using sign language. Therefor when she hears the women speak she can immediately think what she would do to make that noise and make the connection. just a guess.
MORE likely she had just heard her self say "i don't want to HEAR my laughter" so recognized 'hear' when the woman said it and was simply responding to that.
 
based on what others have said, i'm pretty sure that's not how it works. i know it seems like she would just be able to figure it out and it's a really hard concept to wrap your head around, but i'm pretty sure if you sat a deaf person (who had never heard sound before) in a room, and suddenly a voice started coming through speakers that they could hear, they wouldn't understand it. because even though they can speak, that's only because they have had a lot of training in how to move their mouths and such. doesn't mean they have any idea what it would sound like, and so she wouldn't really be able to make a connection between sounds and mouth movements.

however, the second point you made makes more sense. most people are saying she had a previous hearing device that allowed her to hear muffled sounds, so i'm pretty sure that's how she was able to understand.
 
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