I love watching the heart tugging videos where a deaf child hears his/her Mother’s voice for the first time, how do they understand what is being said to them? It seems to me that they’d have no frame of reference with which to understand.

I love the video of the baby hearing for the first time where the Mother says “I love you” & calls his name. The baby grins from ear to ear & it looks so sweet. I would think that the sudden noise would startle a baby creating the reaction of a startled cry.

There’s also one of a boy who appears to be 6–8 y/o. His Mother is sitting behind him & as they turn on his cochlear implant his Mother simply says his name. I understand that through sign language that he would know his name; but, how could he understand that was his name when hearing it for the first time?