What I meant was:...it's not that the hearing child of a deaf parent will never speak....it's just that in a lot of cases, the hearing child's speech is somewhat "delayed". Hearing children with deaf parents/siblings are more prone to "sign" than speak, if no speech is used in the home. I believe that early intervention is necessary in those cases....day care, early Pre-K, intereaction with other hearing children, etc......The same for deaf children in an all-hearing family! So, it goes both ways.
