This work will help develop rehabilitative programs that may prove beneficial to deaf stroke victims. I have met several members of the Seattle Deaf community and really appreciate the input and advice they have offered. See Community Announcements for job opening. Many people including Deaf parents themselves have this general misconception that hearing children of Deaf parents will have language difficulties if they learn two languages simultaneously. Many bilingual studies have demonstrated that children, who are bilingual, typically go through initial stages of experimenting and sorting out their two languages.
Any apparent confusion tends to be temporary.
Almost all bilingual children go on to master both languages without intervention. Additionally, bilinguals often become more adept with their linguistic and analytical skills. As adults, hearing children of Deaf parents have demonstrated their verbal and oral skills in a wide variety of professions by becoming accomplished lawyers, writers, teachers, psychologists and physicians. There are many children of Deaf parents who have excelled in fields that have nothing to do with deafness and have succeed at the highest level. For example, Dr. Donald N. Langenberg's parents graduated from Gallaudet University and moved to North Dakota where his father taught printing at the state school for the deaf for his entire career.