Children who are deaf and are born to hearing parents will more than likely have a delay in the receptive and expressive language skills. The article at the bottom discusses the milestones of hearing, speech, and ASL. This was given to us in our Language Development of Deaf and Hard of Hearing class. This has helped significantly when looking at the differences in hearing children and deaf children. When deaf children are born to deaf parents, they are given a language from day 1, just like when hearing children are born to hearing parents. Parents continually talk to their babies from the time they are born, through the rest of developmental stages. When a deaf child is born to a hearing couple, they are usually so stunned that their son/daughter is deaf, that they do not give them a language. Even if the parents decided to give the child a cochlear implant, the baby cannot get implanted until 6 months of age. By this time, the child is already delayed in language development. Therefore, a deaf child will most likely be delayed through the school years. If the child has a hearing aid or cochlear implant, they still do not hear like the average person. Since they do not hear the world around them, they usually do not pick up the necessary vocabulary needed to succeed. Not only the vocabulary and syntax, but the child will probably be delayed in the pragmatics of communication as well. Usually deaf children have a hard time grasping the idea of turn taking in a conversation. The pragmatics that hearing children usually pick up in naturally will usually have to be explicitly taught to the deaf student.
https://blackboard.utk.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-6501035-dt-content-rid-6259801_1/courses/EducofDeafHardofHearing41625268SP2013/ASL%20Milestones.PDF
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