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you know the emotion behind it. The face is where all the emphasis on words and phrases come from. It is this that allows the deaf to tell a story. Sign Language often is a lot like acting. Instead of just telling a story, the person signs it in such an articulate way that they create the world, the setting, the characters, and the circumstance for the story they are telling. A simple trip to the grocery store can be an enthralling experience to watch.

~Oral Communication~
I won't lie, this would be the harder of the roads to communication that there are to offer. Firstly, a deaf child obviously has a hearing impairment. How a hearing child learns language is by hearing the people around them use it. We learn grammar early, while we may not know how to write it early, we know how to articulate a question. How our voice raises at the end just slightly. We learn how to demand, how to emote different things in a sentence. We learn what words mean what. Word association is what most learn from. A deaf child does not have these benefits, even with the aid of something such as a hearing aid or the cochlear implant (which we'll get to later) it's hard for a deaf child to make clear what they hear. Often, you will see someone having the deaf child touch their throat while they make a sound, and slowing the movements of the lips and tongue down so that the child can see. These are very visual and touch sensitive ways of teaching. But hard because the deaf child may be able to make a throat sound similar they cannot hear it, and they cannot match you, it is not that easy.

It's a long and arduous task to teach a deaf child to speak. Not only will you have a lot of work as a parent, because you'll have to constantly teach your child, but you'll have to deal with a great deal of frustration. Many deaf begin learning to 'speak' when and if they enter a mainstream school, or a normal school for hearing children. There they will often be given a speech therapist, it's rare these days for a deaf person not to be able to speak at all, they usually have some ability, though they have their own accent because of the lack of hearing. They speak in a muffled and almost muted way. Oral communication is a long process, and should be coupled with something like sign language. Not too long ago, a Speech Therapist would tell the parents that in order for their child to speak they would have to chose not to use sign language. But that is only going to frustrate the child in being unable

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