Chasing the Mythical Ten Percent: Parental Hearing Status of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in the United States

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Deaf children need language, not (just) speech (2019, positive): “In developed countries, roughly one child in 1000 will be born with a bilateral hearing loss of at least 40dB (Smith, Bale, & White, 2005) and 95% of DHH children will be born into homes where only spoken languages are in use at the time of birth (Mitchell & Karchmer, 2004).”
Parental Hearing Status and Signing among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students (2005, result): “Further, as can be seen in the last row of Table 3 (percent of total), the present findings are in close agreement with those reported by Mitchell and Karchmer (2004a). That is, the fraction of students who have at least one deaf parent and the”
Intellectual functioning of deaf adults and children: Answers and questions (2006, background): “…available is in efforts to understand and describe intellectual functioning of deaf individuals, both those who are children of deaf parents (less than 5% of all deaf individuals; Mitchell & Karchmer, 2004) and deaf children of hearing parents raised with sign language rather than spoken language.”