It is hard to imagine a person whose everday thinking is in a different language. I have always thought in English and cannot comprehend others thinking in Spanish or Russian. What happens if you never learned a spoken language? I read this intriguing article dealing with the way people who are born deaf think.
In what language do the profoundly deaf think? Why, in Sign (or the local equivalent), assuming they were fortunate enough to have learned it in infancy. The hearing can have only a general idea what this is like–the gulf between spoken and visual language is far greater than that between, say, English and Russian. Research suggests that the brain of a native deaf signer is organized differently from that of a hearing person.
Read the rest of the article as it explains why deafness can have far more serious consequences than blindness. Not that blindness is a walk in the park.
In What Language Do Deaf People Think?
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