Five- year- old Darrin is a deaf child of deaf parents. As a generalization, we could predict that in school Darrin will
A) acquire excellent speech skills.
B) demonstrate more social and emotional problems than other deaf students.
C) have poorer reading and language achievement than children of hearing parents.
D) perform better in language and communication than he would if his parents were hearing.
E) lag behind rubella- deafened children.

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Deaf children of deaf parents often have better language and communication skills because their parents are typically more proficient in sign language and can communicate more effectively with them from an early age. This early exposure to a fully accessible language environment facilitates their language development.

Five- Year- Old Darrin Is a Deaf Child of Deaf