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

Multiple Choice

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.