1.   Another requirement is that enrollees interact with hearing children in school or preschool.

2.   A hearing child of hearing parents, she describes her life within a culture she could never really be part of.

3.   A small minority of deaf people would even consider aborting a hearing child.

4.   But she is still finding a small proportion who say they might abort a hearing child.

5.   She grew up in West Palm Beach, married a deaf man and has four hearing children.

6.   She is a hearing child of deaf parents and grandparents.

7.   The message to hearing children is to be open-minded, to be accepting, to be respectful to each other.

8.   Fant, a hearing child of deaf parents, learned sign language before he learned to speak.

9.   Research at the University of Melbourne has shown that hearing impaired school children had reading comprehension levels well below those of normal hearing children.

10.   Research at the University of Melbourne indicated that hearing impaired schoolchildren had reading comprehension levels well below those of normal hearing children.