If a person is born deaf, which language do they think in?
They don't and neither do you.It is incorrect to say you think in a language. The thoughts that you hear in your head are the thoughts you think you think. You think in symbols and then translate to a language, it simply goes on at a speed that is tens of thousands times faster than your awareness. You perceive in a language, which is to say, the conscious awareness of your thinking is in a language, the one you are using the most. Hearing people are probably more aural than visual and are hearing their thoughts as if spoken. People born deaf are visual and perceive their conscious thoughts in visual form, perhaps in their signed language, but both are actually thinking (the step prior to conscious awareness) sybolically.I have spoken to accountants who have spent several 20 hour days working on a new spreadsheet say that they “think” in “electronic spreadsheet.” the same is true of programmers who might temporarily be aware of their thoughts or dreams in a program language , the same is true of composers who might temporarily think in musical notes substituting for thoughts. Meditators and mathematicians frequently discuss their awareness of “thought” being symbolic, one thing substituting for another and conclusions made as if it were in a formula. The actual thinking is occurring in one's own personal symbology, and the awareness is expressed in a language.There are those few people who claim that they are aware of their thoughts but no language is used in thst awareness. And, there are synesthetes, that 4% of the population that hears colors or sees sounds. They most assuredly have the ability to do a very quick translation in order to communicate, because clearly their memory is fioed away in their personal language.So, persons who are born with absolutely no hearing, think no differently than the rest, they use a personal symbology just as everyone else, they merely use a different language overlay for their awareness of their thoughts than those who hear.
Can a person, who was born deaf and blind and mute, think?
Interesting question. Helen Keller said that before she caught on to communication, she "was like a ship in a dense fog, groping its way without compass or sounding-line." She said she lived in "a conscious time of nothingness. I did not know that I knew aught or that I lived or acted. I had neither will nor intellect. . . I had no power of thought."Waite, Helen E., Valiant Companions: Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan MacyWaite, Helen E., The Story of My Life: Helen Keller
If person was born deaf and mute what language do they think in?
Pictures/mental images. Fundamentally, we all think in pictures. When we learned our native tongue, we learned to tag vocalizations to what we sense in our environment. Our parent pointed at a dog and said to us: "dog". Thenceforth, we associated the vocalization for dog with the image of a dog. The next time we hear the word "dog" the image of a dog comes to mind. Language is an interface that allows one human to share the silent images of his brain with another human. We can still think in images without language. It would just be very difficult to convey our thoughts to others without knowledge of language. But even then we would instinctively seek create our own way of communicating with others by using signs. Deaf persons who never formally learned sign-language actually create their own sign language to communicate with the hearing. I personally know of one such individual.
If someone is blind and deaf from birth, do they know anything?
Yes. They understand what they are from feeling hunger and sleepiness. They feel emotions just like everyone else. I know because deafblind people feel intense feelings of frusteration from not being able to communicate or navigate. In fact deafblind people even think like humans do. However they cannot think visually or linguistically, so they think cerebrally. This is a universal way of thinking that is thought in the purest form. Their existence is limited to touch. They can feel doorknobs and over time learn that there are rooms inside those doorknobs. They learn to grasp forks like everyone else, to flush a toilet, to run and skip. They still have the gift of movement. Movement is their way of expressing their thoughts and feelings while touch is their way of getting to know the world. Eventually they also become aware of the dangers they cannot see or hear. That must be more frightening than anything. Imagine the shock of a dog sinking its teeth into your arm without seeing or hearing it. You only feel the pain of your punctured flesh and the shock of what happened. So yes, this is another form of existence. Deafblind people might not ever be one hundred percent able to know what existence really is without having sight and hearing. However they do know that there is a world with people and all kinds of things and ideas in it, it just takes them longer to learn it. They have a different perception but they still have a perception. Deafblind people eventually learn that there is a big wide world out there with color, shapes, sounds, etc. They learn about sounds from vibrations. They learn communication techniques by learning braille, sign language and finger spelling. This enables them to communicate with others and as their vocabulary progresses they learn more and more ideas to build a better picture of what the world is really like. To better understand what it is like to be deaf and blind maybe one day you should try putting on a pair of earmuffs and a blindfold.
Will a person blind, deaf and dumb by birth have sexual desires?
Why i ask such a question is, those ppl dunno what is their sexual organ, how will it look, what to do with it. They wouldnt have seen it. How will they know to make love? They'll have no idea how to do it, even if they have the desires.
How do people born blind and deaf think?
I have one very good friend who is Deaf-blind, and has a Ph.D, so obviously she can think very well. If the implication of the question is that Deaf-blind people can’t think, or think poorly, the answer is that this isn’t the case.However, to be fair, she had a lot of intervention from birth, and was fortunate in a lot of ways. Her parents were fairly wealthy, and she was a first-born, so technically an only child until she was about four or five. She had attention from her parents and nannies hired especially to help give her experiences so she could learn about the things she couldn’t see and hear.Also, her parents were realistic about her needs, and learned sign language when she was a baby— many people with children who are Deaf or Deaf-blind either never learn to sign, or put off learning it because they are in denial about their children’s needs.I have seen her sort of talk to herself when she is thinking. She doesn’t full-out sign things, and I can’t understand most of what she says, but sometimes when she’s puzzling something out, her fingers flutter a little. She says she’s also been told she signs in her sleep sometimes.So to an extent, she probably thinks in the language she uses— tactile American Sign Language. But she probably doesn’t think out every sign. Probably sometimes her thoughts come faster than she would be able to express them, the way anyone’s do, and she thinks in the sensory experiences that she has.Another problem with this question is that it seems to be predicated on the idea that all sighted and hearing people think the same, which may not be true, and in my opinion, probably isn’t. By the same token, not all Deaf-blind people think alike.I think I have a general (but only a general) idea of my friend’s inner life because I know her well, but that doesn’t mean I understand the inner lives of all Deaf-blind people. When I used to work with autistic people, we’d often say “If you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person.” I think the same thing can be said for Deaf-blind people.
Can deaf people hear themselves think?
I can't help but laugh at some of these ignorant answers. I am deaf, and I can answer your question properly. Ok let me clear up one myth about deafness. There is this myth that deaf people cannot hear. But any degree of deafness still has room for hearing that can be enhanced with digital hearing aids. We live in a time and age where they are very powerful enough to raise a person's deafness upto even almost hard-of-hearing. These hearing aids cost as much as $2,000 just for one, and of course they better work if we're gonna spend that much money! I am profoundly deaf which is just one level away from complete deafness. That means I am 85% deaf in one ear and 80% deaf in the other. I hear nothing without my hearing aids. But if I wear my hearing aids, I can hear A LOT. I can hear my own voice. I can hear birds, my cats meowing, cars going by, the difference between a small dog and large dog barking, accents, and much more. As for hearing our thoughts, English is my first and main language. I've been speaking since I was 18 months old, so how is my hearing my own thoughts any different than you do? It may not sound perfect but the thing is the brain does not need perfect imaginary vocal thoughts because it already understands the thoughts themselves and the ears are not involved. I have dreams where I am having regular conversations just like you do. I understand what is being spoken to me, and I'm understood. The key here is understanding. There is no need for perfect speech in our minds and dreams. As for those deaf that primarily communicate via ASL as their main language and English as a second language via reading and writing, I'm sure it is more visual-oriented in their minds. Probably a combination of acting out the signs and seeing the words in their visual form. I sometimes think in words visually as the brain is not limited to auditorial communication, there is also visual communication. Many times both are used. I lip-read half while my ears listen to half of the sounds then my brain puts them together filling in the gaps. Like for example if you were to speak "like" to me. I would hear "ike" and my eyes would see the letter "l" being used at the beginning of the word spoken, then my brain would put it together and get the word "like". Does that make sense?