At what level? I ask because I am seeing responses from you that do not go beyond an introductory level of the subject matter.
And as I asked prior, what year are you in? I have addressed the issue of phoneme morpheme representation in the other post I just responded to.
Learning patterns are the same provided the input can be processed. Quite obviously, even though you say you have had adbanced classes, your comprehension of the differences in cognitive processing and the perception of stimuliu between the deaf and the hearing individual is quite lacking. You are looking at deafness, as does most of the ill informed and inexperienced population, as being ONLY the inability to perceive auditory stimuli. It iis much, much more than that. You need to learn quite a bit more about deafness, and how the little bit of information you have learned applies specifically. I will be glad to refer you to several volumes that can provide you with this specific application.
