Reply To: Mental Images

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JJ30546
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People think in the language they were brought up with. Since ASL (American Sign Language) is not spoken, people who become deaf before they learn a language (In this case, most likely English,) they literally don’t hear themselves think. I have worked with deaf/hoh (hard of hearing) individuals. When they’re counting something, say, how much money they’ll need for lunch, the deaf/hoh individual counts in sign language, much in the same way we would say ‘one, two, three…’ I have asked the same question, and a friend who also works with the deaf/hoh community stated that ‘all people think in concepts. words are merely verbally expressed concepts, but are concepts nonetheless.’ Which leads me to conclude that deaf/hoh individuals think in signs, or simply pictoral images within their minds.

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