Because she can read lips and they probably also make sign language while talking.

oh... nice point! thanks!

Because she can probably read lips and she hears "can you hear me" at the same time. Pretty easy to understand what that person means.

Maggie can assimilate "canyouhearme" by using multiple communication cues including what she hears, lip-reading cues, and hand signs using American Sign Language that ask the question: Can you hear me?

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Because the instinct for interrogatory speech is ingrained in all of us, since the species is well over a million years old. We've had hundreds of thousands of generations of good hearing, when hearing genes aren't turned on, that doesn't mean that the instinct goes away. It's the same way you know how to find the bathroom in the dark. You have a memory of your bedroom and/or hallway drawn in your head, but how did you know to have a memory? Instinct.

sounding out words and actually saying them are some things deaf people do. They also sometimes learn to read lips rather well because not everyone knows sign language. So its not hard to imagine how deaf people can understand words.

Lipreading

She looked at the people talking, def people learn pretty fast to read lips since not all humans know deaf language

Prior to the auditory programming session, UH Case Medical Center specialists trained Maggie to communicate what she would experience using picture cards paired with a vibrotactile device (a vibrator). Using the device, she was taught that slow vibration felt on the hand represented a “low pitch”, and that fast vibration felt on the hand represented a "high pitch." Maggie would point to the picture representing the vibration she felt. She was remarkably accurate with this training task. We used hand signs (ASL) and visual cards with written explanations and pictures to facilitate communication. We had visual cards representing concepts or information she needed to communicate to us, such as “same - same sound," or “same - different sound”; “loud" versus "soft" sound; “high pitch" versus "medium pitch" versus "low pitch" sound. Then we added the various sound stimuli and asked her to communicate back by pointing to the picture that best represented what she was hearing and how it sounded.

I believe she has grown up used to reading their lips and their hand signs. If you notice when her dad called her name when she wasn't looking, she looked at his face to respond to where the sound was coming from and then had to read his lips to understand when he asked "can you hear me?" to which she replied "yes" in a nod. lol I hope this helps.

She can't, she understand the leanguage not the sounds so probably lips reading. Also his mother doing signals.

Lip Reading. The way she understood them before

i think she may be still lip reading

Sign language

My guess is from the movement of the lips. She's answering that she heard noise associated with the lip movement.

So Maggie does not yet understand words as we do. She currently communicates using a combination of American Sign Language (ASL) and lip-reading cues, now combined with auditory cues. She is working with a speech-language pathologist toward the goal of understanding words using the auditory cues. Think of it like learning a foreign language; the auditory sounds of the foreign words are being heard, but the brain must be trained how to make sense of the sounds. This will take time.

UniversityHospitals this is awesome!