Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.

I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

The cause is very close to my heart, and I'm proud to be supporting NDCS in helping deaf children overcome the challenges they face in everyday life.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.