Born Without Hearing, An 11-year-old Takes On The National Spelling Bee

mikemike said:
So he has a CI and very well trained in speech therapy. I wondered if a Deaf child can participated with an ASL interpreter??
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doubt it...the word has to be spoken for the contestant to spell out....Now if it were the other way around...the word would be spelled out and the contestant would vocalize it.
 
This is more about him yet nothing from him...
 
Well, but if the deaf person can lipread and speak clearly for his-self, why not?

Fuzzy
 
mikemike said:
So he has a CI and very well trained in speech therapy. I wondered if a Deaf child can participated with an ASL interpreter??
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probably not... unless the word has an ASL sign. But considering most words in spelling bees are long and somewhat obscure (??), good chance that it would have to be fingerspelled anyway...unless the interpreter can sign the definition lol.
 
oh, that's right.. I didn't thought of that.

unless..... the child was accustomed to lipread that particular word.
for example, say the word is auricular. the person learns how to lip read this word from a few different people to get the hang of it,
then the judge with the best pronunciation says the word, hopefully the deaf child will be able to understand his or her lip reading
after practicing beforehand?

Fuzzy
 
My daughter had a friend who dad was the principal of the school she went to and he had an English accent and when there were spelling Bees at the school
some students had a hard understand his pronunciation of some words . My daughter said some students were spelling words b/c of this . He does have a thick accent and I had hard time understanding the parents at times.
 
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