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In human development, muteness or mutism [1] is defined as an absence of speech, with or without an ability to hear the speech of others. [2] Mutism is typically understood as a person's inability to speak, and commonly observed by their family members, caregivers, teachers, doctors or speech and language pathologists.
Treatment in teenage or adult years can be more difficult because the affected individual has become accustomed to being mute, and lacks social skills to respond to social cues. [citation needed] The exact treatment depends on the person's age, any comorbid mental illnesses, and a number of other factors.
In the 2014 video game Watch Dogs, Aiden Pearce's nephew, Jackson, is electively mute after the death of his sister. In the 2014 film The Prophet, Kamila's daughter, Elmitra, is depicted as mute after the death of her father. In the 2019 film A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, Ben Collins stops speaking after witnessing his father being knifed to death.
But being an inspiration isn’t one of the qualifications for a driver’s license. That’s OK for Kris, though, and for many other deaf people, because being deaf isn’t a disqualifier.
Deaf-mute is a term which was used historically to identify a person who was either deaf and used sign language or both deaf and could not speak.The term continues to be used to refer to deaf people who cannot speak an oral language or have some degree of speaking ability, but choose not to speak because of the negative or unwanted attention atypical voices sometimes attract.
Deafblind people communicate in many different ways as determined by the nature of their condition, the age of onset, and what resources are available to them. For example, someone who grew up deaf and experienced vision loss later in life is likely to use a sign language (in a visually modified or tactile form).
In Deaf culture, person-first language (i.e., person who is deaf, person who is hard of hearing) has long been rejected since being culturally Deaf is seen as a source of positive self-acceptance. [9] Instead, Deaf culture uses Deaf-first language: Deaf person or hard-of-hearing person. [10]
The Swedish language also contributes two words on the UK list: smokeless tobacco Snus, pronounced (SNOOZ), and flygskam, the name of a movement that aims to discourage people from flying that ...