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Imagine being a small child and not hearing the loving, nurturing voice of your parent. Even worse, imagine being a few years old and your parents not knowing that you could not hear their loving and nurturing voice, but rather thinking that you are just not a very talkative child. Or imagine being the parent of a child who you find out has is deaf. What do you do? As a parent, you have never been faced with this issue. These scenarios are both equally hard and unfortunately true. There are many cases where children grow up deaf with hearing parents who never really are allowed the chance to blossom and work a grade level. But, of course, as in everything, there are those children who are lucky and are able to function “normally”. With today’s technology more and more children are being diagnosed with a hearing loss up to the age of eighteen months old. This being such an early detection the child is able to go into speech therapy right away and have a greater chance of learning English. Some children are not so lucky however. The ability to learn a language fluently ends when a child hits puberty. After that, it is incredibly hard for the child to acquire the language. There are many dea