What is "profoundly deaf"

Usage examples of "profoundly deaf".

Matt, who's seven, is profoundly deaf' and communicates with American Sign Language.

Delicate, graceful little creature though she was, with her demure semi-ehhif smile, she was also profoundly deaf: when she spoke, the noise was so alarming that Rhiow was often amazed that bricks didn’.

Otherwise the number and nature of its manifold idiocies had surprised even a former unwed teenaged mother who'd kept and homeschooled her profoundly deaf daughter in the teeth of welfare officers, bureaucrats and Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.

It introduced me to my wife Sarah, who's profoundly deaf, and it got me my job with BGI.

You was stabbed, dear,' he said loudly, as if having a conversation with someone who was profoundly deaf.

The unusual thing about their family, though, is that since Matt is profoundly deaf and doesn't speak, he and Haley and their parents communicate using sign language.

She spoke and used sign language at the same time, since Matt, who's seven, is profoundly deaf and can't speak or hear.