I can't actually fathom this.
How can she even comprehend what sound is?
She's obviously overwhelmed, but I dunno I just expected her head to explode or something because she'd be so bewildered.
Incredible stuff
I'm a bit perplexed by this. She was on the national news tonight. If she's never heard any sound, how can she comprehend the relationship between the written and the spoken word?
And to thicken the plot further, she speaks - with the usual "deaf person's speech impediment" - but also with a definite trace of a Geordie accent (she's from Newcastle). This doesn't seem consistent with never having heard speech in her life.
Not trying to demean the fantastic improvement in her life that this has given her, but I smell media exaggeration.
with no actual knowledge, here I go.....
I think it could well be that she has never 'heard' these words but she will have 'felt' them, the vibration on a hand or with the music she mentioned, through her whole body
remember, she can already speak, so she must know what sound vibration to mimic and therefore would recognise well enough that what she is now hearing is indeed the words for the days of the week
what she didn't recognise at first were those other sounds she wouldn't know by learning to make them herself - she was apparently surprised by how noisey a scrunched crisp packet was, and was delighted by birdsong
confession time, I was in the car early this morning when I first heard this story, and it nearly made me cry