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Can people, who were born deaf (100%), talk? [Details inside].

Asked by rebbel (35549points) February 13th, 2012

A while ago there was a question about deafness.
I answered it and afterwards I discussed it with my girlfriend.
She assumed that a person who was born deaf could not (vocally) talk (as long as that person is still deaf).
Because that person has never heard sound (also not her/his own sound) he/she can not make understandable sounds, is what my girlfriend thinks.
Was that assumption correct?
Whenever a deaf person’s hearing is (in whatever way) repaired, and he/she had never been able to talk, can that person learn to talk?

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