The incredible moment a deaf baby hears his mother's voice for the very first time

Daily Mail ^ | 6/4/2010 | Daniel Bates

[metmom]

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[metmom]

What’s so interesting about that video is how he goes from looking so lethargic to perking right up when he first starts hearing sounds.

And then how his pacifier just drops out of his mouth in amazement when his mom starts talking to him. He’s absolutely riveted to her face and making the connection between her mouth moving and the sound.

[rangerwife]

Thought the same thing...looked like he was trying to say Hi to her too! :) Video is awesome!

[stylecouncilor]

WOW! My screen just got so blurry. :)

[Albion Wilde]

That deaf community (Gaudelet) has its issues.

That would be Gallaudet.

[metmom]

I never could master French phonics.....

[metmom]

Thanks for the correction.

[EyeGuy]

Now THIS is the kind of story which would be featured daily if we have a truly conservative national news network; a Free Republic TV Channel.

[Quix]

INDEED.

THX.

WILL CHK IT OUT.

[Albion Wilde]

:-)

[Crolis]

So cute....it’s nice to see a good news story once in a while.

[bvw]

No I do not think woman select mates based on the two reasons you give as much as you seem to be saying they do.

The tyranny of the average is the hidden dark core of all social structures based on elitism, such as Marxism, American Early Scientific Socialism (Dewey, Sanger, et al), Late American Scientific Socialism (post WWII, Eisenhower/Kennedy/Nixon, standardized testing, the Federal 'elitocracy' seen claimed by Federal workers here on FR, teh domination of Harvard and Yale graduates in such fauxtocracies), Nazism. How is that? In a survey of the actual History of such regimes one can see it quite clearly. The structures and processes to create them are started in earnest, by the intelligent and able. But in a few generations -- as few as two -- they get populated by those who do not threaten those currently in power, and then by those who are mediocre in all things except fierce protection of their own turf. And who most threatens their turf? The naturally gifted.

Apt but fictional models of parts of the process include Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", HG Wells' "The Country of the Blind".

The one Freepers would be most familiar with, I think,would be “The Fountainhead.”

[nina0113]

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[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Just wait for the “deaf community’s” harsh reaction to this."

Heh. I hear ya... pun intended. I have a CI, even was on the air with Rush the day he came back from having his turned on. He had the exchange archived for a long time on his site. "Two Deaf Guys Talking On The Radio." A fun segment. Wonder if it's still up.

Back when I was one of the earliest North American recipients of the CI, I had to change my email address because of the abuse I received from certain members of the capital-D Deaf community. Some of those folks are seriously damaged. They have a spokesman in a (hearing) guy named Harlan Lane... what a nasty specimen that guy is.

I recall meeting the then-youngest recipient of a CI and his parents at a party some years back. He was an absolutely lovely boy of about 18 months. Happy, well adjusted, sweet... and his parents were getting death threats from folks who viewed his CI as the equivalent of robbing the cradle. They say "deafness is not a deficiency to be cured but a difference to be celebrated." Hence giving a child a CI equates to denying them their cultural identity.

It goes without saying that the capital-D crowd is, in my experience, uniformly, monolithically, fist-in-the-air leftist. Mental dysfunction like theirs is found nowhere else but in the Left.

[Wurlitzer]

“Just wait for the “deaf community’s” harsh reaction to this.”

My thoughts exactly!

They are living proof of Lord Acton's statement: “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”

It is much more important for these “organizations” to continue than to actually solve the problem for which they were created. Initial intentions were great but then the organization became more important than the cause.

I love their fear of losing their deaf heritage.

[RnMomof7]

I was thinking about that.. Thank God for this little miracle .. This baby’s life can now be normal

[cpforlife.org]

Pro-Life PING

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[cpforlife.org]

Thanks Mark. Great story that is good for the heart.

[MinorityRepublican]

There are extremists in every community.

Having said that, I'm a deaf person myself and I use American Sign Language. So its only natural that I'm part of this so-called "Deaf Culture".

There are a few deaf FReepers around here, just keep that in mind.

[BobL]

“Just wait for the “deaf community’s” harsh reaction to this.”

Yea, they’re as bad as the gays. A guy goes straight - and they LOSE IT.