Ashlea Hayes joins Amanda to talk about: talking while Deaf, Lip-reading skills, people not believing they are Deaf, interpreters and more! Learn more about Ashlea here: / ashlea-brittney-hayes-...
@@InsipidPig Sorry , you're wrong. People that are born hearing or even partially hearing are able to access early language learning and continue to build on this even after they lose their hearing. It is very much harder for children born profoundly deal to acquire 'good' speech.
@@sarkyfarky8679 I was born deaf, I had a speech therapy for years since I was 14 months all through high school. What people say I speak like everyone else. Many people, think I'm hearing. Which I am not. I have to tell them I am deaf. They were like no way, you are not deaf blah blah blah. They speak very well and I do agree that I will say 80 percent of born deaf do not do a very good job, is because they cannot hear themselves or chose not to have a skill to use.
That's only because of hearing aids. A person that cannot hear themselves speak cannot pronounce proper words. There's more than just breathing between your lips and gums and tongue that makes you speak. Here's your test depending how old you are. If you're young have a friend put a set of headphones on turn them way up until them to sing along and then listen to him you going to tell them they're going to sing in normal speaking voice and not LOL. Who put the headphones on loud to where they can't hear nothing but the music. You cannot make out one word they say maybe one but the rest of the bunch of mumbo jumbo. Is a saying it would be slurred somewhere you won't even come out right at all. Every deaf person I've ever heard try to speak this is exactly what they sound like. I've had friends that they've lost her hearing overtime Whip and speaking fluent and loud. Where you can barely understand a word that came out of the mouth because it didn't come out right at all or it was total slurred. To her to point it just sound like Mumble coming out of their mouth muffled mumble. But I am hearing about how lot of people that have gone to these schools to learn sign walk around making videos acting as if they can't speak and go to the sign language then expecting you to sit and write notes as they do the speaking by signing. So when you say I've never heard this this is amazing yeah it is amazing because they could speak in here just as well as you and it don't matter if they're using some for me device or not it's the fact that they can hear what they're saying.
my mom got sick when she was little and lost her hearing. but I love sign language because it's a beautiful thing. I have known sign language since I was 2
I was born legally deaf but I'm able to talk thanks my parents countless hours of speech therapy, for many years. I couldn't tell you how good it felt having hearing aids for the first time. I actually cried. People take their hearing for granted.
@Cierra Crane it does....I heard if your born deaf you can't speak because your brain never learned to hear or talk but if you lose it at a another age you can still talk.
why exclude everyone else and make it seem like nobody else is intelligent, try to be inclusive more, it's much better. We're all the same, we just have our own unique way of showing how we stand out. all love
@@kailani5810 idk if you didn't know or you where just saying that you know the letters but you don't just use the letters in sign language to communicate, there's words with one sign and you don't just spell words out lol
I'm kind of curious, do you feel your own vibration produced when talking, and adjust your pitch and volume from there? Or can you actually understand yourself talking because you can sort of listen to your own voice?
me and my sister are learning sign language and we were at a motionless in white concert and I signed to her "you okay?" and I was asked "what are you do here being deaf?" and all I could do was look at them. by the way we're not deaf but I do have trouble hearing sometimes tho.
danny black So you've encountered the opposite reaction of the video. Funny. Just because you talk, doesn't mean you aren't deaf. Just because you sign, doesn't mean you can't hear.
that's the same for me because I went deaf in one ear when I was 13 and I'm losing the hearing in my other ear and I'm 16 now and I can barley hear and my family doesn't know sign language so I try to teach them they know a few words but not a lot and I go to a hearing school too so it's really hard and I don't have an interpreter some of my friends know sign language and are learning which is cool but I started to learn when I was little cause I have a deaf friend and she would teach me all the time.
My grandma is deaf but she can talk fluently like yours! We are lucky that she can still talk :3 . But she does not know how to sign language neither does all of us.. We lipsync then she can understand it. She isnt really 100% deaf which is great! Yall are so lucky that you can still talk not only that but you can talk very fluent! God bless you all may all of you remain being positive and nice!
You guys amaze me. I was deaf as a child and had many deaf friends. And none of them could speak anywhere near as well as you. And it took me 3 years of re-education to speak this well after gaining my hearing.
This video was awesome! I am an ASL major and recently took "Deaf Culture". Hearing some of what I learned from individuals in the Deaf community was pretty "cool". Thank you for sharing! :)
There is a high need for fluent therapists because imagine trying to relay your experiences and feelings through an interpreter to the person who's supposed to help. Please do. Deaf and signing people need you to!! Even as a hearing person is prefer to sign in therapy, as I prefer in the other areas of my life, which is why my son signs now.
Thank you so much for keeping up with your voices! When you talk and sign it really helps spread knowledge and more people can access what you have to say. I don't know any deaf people in real life, and I've never had the chance to really learn sign language. If you did talk I wouldn't be able to enjoy your wonderful videos!!!
Oh, my . . . this is great! So much of your experience are the same as mine. Except, I was born deaf. So I get "wow, you speak really well" when they find out I was born deaf. Ugh.
I understand that deaf people see that as a negative comment but allow me to shed some light on why hearing people may say that. To a hearing person the ONLY way to tell what he/she sounds like is to hear it. We rely on our hearing for total feedback. We control our voices by constant auditory feedback. Again, I don't doubt you find the comment annoying but perhaps if you read "You speak well for a deaf person" as "You are doing something well without possessing the ONLY TOOL IN THE WORLD that can help you do that thing"!! You may not be so annoyed. The Thoughts In A Hearing Person's Mind: How are you doing that with no way in the world of knowing what you are doing or even if you are doing anything at all? For all you know you are squeaking or barking like a dog.
So much all of this. It happens to me all the time and it's very frustrating. Especially when it comes from people you expect to remember the Deaf part. The thing I notice the most is when I do chose to talk and sign, I loose eye contact with people. They look away and depend on their ears... something I can't do anymore. There is days where I become to frustrated to try and voice. Great video thanks for your laughs ❤️❤️❤️
My family won't let me sign and talk. I need to pick it up again or i'll lose it just like I did with Italian. I speak mulitple languages but when you don't use it you lose it.
I‘m amazed and fascinated. You guys speak SO WELL, and it makes it so hard to believe that you can’t hear people talking. And i can only imagine how hard it must be... respect!! You‘re not to loud, you have a beautiful pronounciation, no accent or smth, you worked hard to maintain that skill and i‘m honestly really and truly amazed 😍😍
I think you are both absolutely amazing! Thank you for posting this & your amazing voices. I would have never known you were both deaf if I would have met you both in person!!! Thank you for opening my eyes to deafness & I am considering learning sign in the future. Keep being fabulous girls xx
It's not a bad search. What you'll learn is that Deaf people "hear" differently from you. It may be because they use hearing aids; maybe they have a CI; maybe the can only hear high frequencies or low frequencies; maybe they use a bone conductor, etc. Assuming is what you want to avoid. Questions asked respectfully are not typically something a person regrets.
I started studying ASL in college and never expected to love it so much and learning about the deaf community just made me want to perfect it I had to leave school because of well.. life. And I’m trying any way I can to keep studying and learning I absolutely love how clearly you sign thank you for making videos I loved your personalities and I really think watching you is going to help me learn faster so that one day soon I can watch other youtubers from the deaf community without missing half the conversation when they’re not oral wish me luck and thank you again !
I am currently taking an ASL class in college and this is so cute. I am learning so much and honestly I am so grateful to learn this language and culture. Thank you so much for this.
Alice Rosario I'm teaching myself ASL but no one close to me knows ASL. I have tried different ways to find others to practice with. I say your comment and I was wondering if you'd like to practice with me. Sorry if this is strange it's really difficult to find people to practice with.
Lately I have been having hearing problems and infections and all that and to have the possibility of going deaf hopefully not but I've been thinking about it. But seeing you two being so open and talkative and being able to like do all this stuff is really inspiring and I hope that you guys continue doing this cuz it could help people who are in the similar condition like me.
This is so beautiful. That even though they are deaf they try their best to speak and they sound great. That's why sigh language is my favorite language, because people can communicate without usually using there voice. So thank you guys for this awesome video. You guys rock!!!!!
This came up in my feed bc I’ve been watching a bunch of sign language videos. I was enjoying learning your perspective, and then you said that bit about it being a guessing game when you’re HH, a puzzle trying to fit bits together. That hit me so hard. I’ve had very bad tinnitus and steadily worsening hearing for a year or two, after I got a bad case of walking pneumonia. And it’s so true that I have to guess what people are saying some of the time. Add in my ADHD which likes to make me mishear things even on a normal day, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. I only recently realised how isolating it is, because I sometimes just give up on understanding what someone has said after I’ve asked them to repeat themselves twice and I still can’t hear them, and I just nod, like I understand, and so I’m not really partaking in the conversation. Thanks so much for this video!
“I think it’s gonna be really blurry” 8:03 & the other lady responds “it’s okay” WHEN THEY DIDNT SIGN ANYTHING & SHE WASNT FACING HER TO READ HER LIPS. Crazy stuff, y’all are intelligent asf
If you were paying attention you'd know that she explained how she can hear things around her but can't hear herself. She said that a few seconds after.
I LOVE your channel!!!! yes your voices are great! :)...I sign some, enough to have a conversation with someone who also signs(be it deaf, hard of hearing or a hearing person) :) I LOVE SIGNING!!!!!!!!!!! I just wish I was better at it and make a lot of mistakes :( ... my friend was born hard of hearing so she has signed all her life(even if other ppl in her everyday life don't). with that said, she's taught/teaching me sign language. I sign with her a good bit but not as often as I should....but back on topic, y'all were talking about how people misunderstand that even though you can talk, very well, that you should be able to hear too. I can say Im guilty of wondering that myself(especially with you) because I'm not around some one who has to sign to communicate all the time. but thank you for explaining it and I'm sorry if I offended you by that. Another thing that I have a huge habit of doing is not continuously look at the person I'm talking to so that they know what I'm saying(deaf or not)......but anyways, you make wonderful videos and I really enjoy watching them. I wish we could chat on Facebook so you too can help me learn more signs.
I mean the fact that they can put emotion into their speech is what shocks me. They can’t hear how they sound, but it’s excellent. Hats off to these ladies! Edit: This was before I saw 7:58. I take back everything I said. UNLESS, some genius can explain what the actual fuck this was about.
Hi Amanda and Ashlea! I really liked this video. I imagine being told "you don't SOUND Deaf" makes you as annoyed as people who say "but you don't LOOK visually impaired" to me. I have never had someone actually say what their process of lip reading is! I do the same thing! I've just never had someone put it in words. I am not Deaf but I have a communication processing disorder. I have no idea what will happen should my vision ever get worse because when I can't lip-read people have to say things several times for me to take in the information. That's why I really like you too because I can rewatch or redo part of the video as many times as I need to without people getting frustrated with me. That is why I love the internet because it's much easier for me to take in information through text. Anywho I just came across this video and I'm going to subscribe and I can't wait to watch more of your videos. I really love y'alls sense of humour too, especially about the interpreter story. It must be so frustrating!
I'm surprised I didn't find this earlier. I'm losing my hearing, due to several factors, environmental, sickness as a child. What surprised me is that if you are older like me, how difficult it is to find a place to learn sign language. Your video helps, as the speech reinforces what is being seen and signed.
Ok, this is such a small thing, but it makes me so happy that you have subtitles even though you're talking and signing! Have a good day, this is great
🤔is it just me or when she was closer to the camera and not doing signs she explained to the other girl it may look blurry and her response was "it's ok" as if she heard her
Remember that she explain that she can perceive what people are saying just by seeing their movement their body language or the way they are doing what they’re doing
Why is it that you both speak so clearly, almost imperceptibly different than speech from the typical hearing person, when it seems often deaf people cannot speak with such quality? Thank you for the entertaining and enlightening video.
You both talk amazing and I’m learning ASL in college and I understand some of the signing you two are doing after one semester of ASL and I can say with confidence that I am able to sign with a Deaf person but not as fast as you two but this is truly amazing
Throw hands up and make some noise! everybody gets alive, jumps for joy! When I say "reach", you touch the sky! From the front to the back, side to side!
yeah I wondered about that too. She probably knows that it wont focuse and saw of the body language that the other woman was struggling with something.
I am hearing and don't personally know a deaf or hard of hearing person, but am learning ASL in case I meet someone like that. Love your voices, they are beautiful!!!
I know they're not using BSL. I'm talking about signed englsih. That is American Sign Language in exact englsih grammar. SE is I go to the store. ASL is store me go. I wasn't ever talking about BSL. And pigeon signed English is a combo nation of ASL and Signed English. Because they speak it is impossible to sign in ASL because of different grammar so I was asking if they used signed English during speaking, and asl when they werent
Kay Murphy it's Signed English. You cannot speak and sign in ASL at the same time because ASL is not a direct translation of English. The grammatical structure alone is entirely different.
Im deaf/HOH with sensorineural hearing loss. With high and low frequency hearing loss. Completely deaf in my left ear and half deaf in my right. I been this way since birth 40 years now. I can hear myself and others. I've been told I talk in a monotone voice. So I get accused of being rude a lot. I've tried hearing aids but it just amplified the background noises rather then the spoken voice. It is so so true about what you say about body language and facial expressions. I rely on those a lot to communicate. Mostly when I hear it sounds muffled unless the room is quiet. And forget it me hearing you if you turn your head, cover your mouth or even try and talk behind me. SMH. You videos are so inspirational. I wish RU-vid was around in the early 90s :)
U guys are so funny and you guys have lots of confidence. I never really hear deaf people talk before, but if they do, they have like this kind of accent or something like that when they talk. I remember learning a little bit of sign when I was little. I'm still practicing though! But i enjoyed your video!
I have been hard of hearing for many years since around the age of 9 in my left ear only (my right has around 60-70% capability while the left has less than 30%). This has made it nearly impossible for me to communicate in noisy places and a hearing aid is unsuitable to my type of hearing loss. I just wanted to share that your video has inspired me to learn ASL, not just for myself but for others who have similar hearing loss. Thank you!
I'm not d/Deaf or HoH but in reading books, that guessing (what you do when you're lip reading) is referred to as using context clues. If there is a word I don't know, I have to use the tone of the story, the other words I understand, and the plot of the story so far to understand the missing words. Obviously it's not the same, but perhaps the same term could be used?
yeah - still. English isn't my first language so I used to do that a lot when reading but I never knew there was a word for it. I love learning new words :)
ChiaraBells in school we used to have to read books and then identify the words we didn't know and stop reading and look those up. I never understood that since that's a horrible way to grasp the story. I can read a 400 page book in one day and with the school's method I could barely read 50 pages and had no idea what the story even was. When reading, you're meant to use the story to help you understand. :)
+Mary Hines yeah I don't get that either. It's no fun to look up everything. It's much better to just get a book where you understand enough to read it without a dictionary.
coffee is important yeah. i still can't believe they can't hear. that was so perfect communication! i can hear clearly and still can't talk as fluently as them! amazing!
I wasn't aware that you were not able to hear with the hearing aids in I guess that is a common misconception. I started signing at 2years old my mother is a teacher but we are both hearing.
I am a hearing person myself and I do t really know many deaf people but I kinda fell in live with the language while sitting next to a deaf man and his interpreter at an event. It is a beautiful language that I am struggling to learn but I am working hard at it. I love to watch these videos and turn the volume down and try to make sense of the signs I know but try really is the key word and I often have to rewind with the volume up. Anyway love your videos❤
You make fun of hearing people for not automatically knowing your Deaf or assuming your Interpreter is the Deaf one, but if you weren't Deaf and saw that, you'd assume the same thing. you have no "tone" often seen with Deaf/hh. Even with those who have spoken all their life and have amazing speech, usually have a Deaf "tone". As a sign language interpreter myself I've seen that many times. Most people who are Deaf later in life will still have that tone so it's a little difficult to believe you two are actually Deaf. Your friend has a bit of a deaf tone, but you don't have any whatsoever and yes that's uncommon, so why be surprised that others would automatically think that? For all they know you two are just hearing signers who are trying to pass off as being Deaf. Just saying, it's not fair to make fun of people for not knowing. Many people haven't ever been around or met any Deaf people.
i am also an interpreter (35 years), have seen many totally deaf people who have no deaf "tone" because the people in their life bring it to their attention and work with them until they clean up the problem. I have also seen mildly deaf individuals that you can't understand at all because their speech is unintelligible. As for someone with late onset deafness, what you can't hear you can't correct unless someone cares about you enough to tell you. You can't fix a problem if you don't know it exists. The young lady on the right has some "deaf tones" at the ends of her words usually near the end of a sentence. She also has a cochlear implant ( or some device that uses a processor) which helps her maintain more "normal" speech sounds. They are using a system called total communication where the person talk and signs. They are not being malicious in what they say they are being truthful, they both stated that they explained to people why they could speak well but not hear and the hearing person chooses to disbelieve it. Shame on the hearing person.
Karen Sawyer Actually, she does have a slight deaf tone. I am hard of hearing, yet even I picked that deaf tone up in her voice. Though, to be fair, I was borne hearing and lost some hearing extremely slowly at first. So, I was able to still learn singing songs and to over compensate for my hearing loss (in learning how to sing songs, you learn very well of the movements needed to sound sharp and have very good clarity and to have great tones. And since I had been singing since age 5 (before I lost my hearing), and had professional training for singing, it helped me to keep that ability to voice well, still, as well as to really strain to listen and to hear myself and others. I still have that ability to listen extremely well to others to get and understand tones and accents, maybe in part, due to this as well as due to my higher than average level of intelligence tested. it gelps, too, that I have the sound all the way up to hear). I still use interpreters that, these days, I need. But, I still voice for myself, too, cus it also helps with my autism.
This was an informative video for me. I never realized that people who are born deaf may have a difficult time forming a good speech pattern. I was ignorant of that and assumed that all deaf people could talk (because their voice still worked). I now have a surface-level understanding of how those who are deaf can use speech to communicate. Thanks for the video!
Lol, thank you so much for sharing a look into your life, both of you. I am starting on a journey with our baby, who has moderate to severe hearing loss. We do have hearing aids, she can definitely hear better with them in, but we do not know exactly what she is hearing. I have already started an online ASL course by Rachel Coleman, and we have two baby sign time videos. I don't want her to ever have to struggle with her family and communication so as a family we are learning sign. :-)
You both have such a fantastic interaction and are funny. I can hear and speak but after two strokes my brain doesn't always "understand" what my ears ARE hearing. It is crazy! I have been learning sign language and use it to sign songs. I love doing that! Best to you both!
OMG this is mind blowing! Yeah it would definitely be hard to understand that a person who spoke fluent English without a "deaf accent" was deaf if I hadn't seen it with the my own eyes right now. So amazing!
I can't imagine what these people go through. My grandma is blind and I always have to hold her hand and take her to where she needs to be in the house. And it breaks my heart seeing her having to deal with being blind. She has never seen my face either
I've been also watching another channel..sign duo. They help me in learning some signs. Also I have been learning more through Bill Vicars. But I did enjoy this video and the fact that I picked up on several signs through out this one I think is pretty good for me!
