Although the world is too big to be strange, it is still a bit bizarre to ask a person who is born deaf and dumb to speak, and the difficulty is comparable to the blossoming of an iron tree. However, this incident really happened to a newlywed couple.
In 2008, the Department of Otolaryngology of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital came to a couple who were on fire. Husband Jin Jianguo said in panic: "Doctor, you should take a quick look, my wife Chen Lang has been deaf and mute for 22 years, and I was angry with my mouth a few days ago!" ”
Jin Jianguo and Chen Lang
However, after examination by the doctor, it was found that although Chen Lang's hearing system was impaired, her language organ was completely normal, which meant that she could speak.
That would be very strange, if Chen Lang could speak, why did Jin Jianguo say that she was deaf and mute? Did he really make his wife, who had been silent for 22 years, really angry? What exactly is the truth?
The deaf-mute wife began to speak
In Wangcheng County, Changsha, Hunan Province, there is such a special family, the mother and two daughters of the family are deaf and mute, born unable to speak or hear. The only father with normal hearing is working outside, so the family is always quiet.
Chen Lang is the daughter of this family, although she is usually quick-witted, but because she is born deaf and dumb, her parents cannot send her to school, and there is no special school for deaf and dumb in the local area, so she can only stay at home.
In order to pass the time, Chen Lang taught himself painting and embroidery. Perhaps because there is no disturbance from the chaotic sounds of the outside world, she always learns to concentrate, practices embroidery well, and has her own perception of painting.
Chen Lang not only cultivated a calm and virtuous nature, but also appeared in the pavilion, so there was no shortage of suitors when he grew up. And her future husband, Jin Jianguo, is one of them.
Jin Jianguo and Chen Lang are fellow countrymen, and the two have known each other since childhood, and can be regarded as green plum bamboo horses. It's just that Jin Jianguo went to school since he was a child, and didn't have much time to get to know each other with Chen Lang, until he liked this girl in adolescence, and their contact slowly increased.
Therefore, Jin Jianguo can only use simple sign language, and he usually has to think about it when communicating with Chen Lang before he can barely express it.
In October 2007, after the formal exchange between the two, Jin Jianguo's desire to communicate became more and more intense, and he pulled Chen Lang to draw sign language every day. However, there are some words that he does not know how to express in Braille gestures, and he often stands up in a hurry and blindly draws with his limbs, as for the meaning he expresses, it all depends on Chen Lang to guess.
Sometimes the two lost their temper, Chen Lang was dazzled by the fast sign language, Jin Jianguo understood her meaning but the response speed could not keep up, and he was forced to speak with his mouth, and he had to draw in his hand. Although he knew that Chen Lang couldn't hear him, he still said it involuntarily.
Not surprisingly, Jin Jianguo was "noisy" but Chen Lang, after all, he did not even communicate smoothly in basic sign language. But every time he lost, he was very unhappy and began to try to communicate with Chen Lang in words.
Jin Jianguo bought Chen Lang a button phone and taught her how to type text. But Chen Lang had not gone to school, only knew some simple daily texts, and was slightly more complicated.
There was no way, Jin Jianguo had to give up text communication and turn around and learn sign language. Although even daily communication has become a problem, the love between the two is enough to overcome this difficulty.
The parents of the two families saw that they got along well and settled the marriage at the end of the year. With the blessing of friends and family, 22-year-old Chen Lang married Jin Jianguo, and the two jointly formed their own small family.
In fact, Jin Jianguo was ready to communicate with Chen Lang in sign language all his life, but he never expected that not long after he got married, his wife, who had been silent for 22 years, suddenly began to speak.
Jin Jianguo is generous and cheerful, has many friends, always gets together to play cards and drink and the like, these things Chen Lang understood before marriage, but Jin Jianguo usually did not delay important things because of playing cards and drinking, so Chen Lang did not care.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month in 2008, Jin Jianguo, who was watching TV with his new wife, received a call from a friend, who turned out to be a brother playing mahjong and asking him to come out and make up a number.
Jin Jianguo also wanted to take advantage of the holiday to relax, and hung up the phone after agreeing. He told Chen Lang in sign language that he was going out, and then picked up his clothes and was leaving.
But what Jin Jianguo did not know was that today is February 14 of the Gregorian calendar, which is also The Western Valentine's Day.
This festival is the first Valentine's Day after the two are newly married, Chen Lang attaches great importance to it, she wanted to celebrate with her husband, but he actually wanted to go out to play mahjong.
Newly married Yan'er, Chen Lang naturally wanted Jin Jianguo to stay at home, she quickly expressed her dissatisfaction in sign language, and the expression on her face was also very angry.
But Jin Jianguo did not take it seriously, and replied casually in sign language: "I have made an appointment with them, and I will come back to accompany you in the evening." Then he turned and walked toward the door.
Seeing that her husband was really leaving, Chen Lang's chest cavity seemed to be broken by a breath, and she actually blurted out: "No! ”
Jin Jianguo in front of him was startled to hear a strange voice and looked back at his wife in disbelief. There were only two of them in this room, and Chen Lang was deaf and mute, was it his own hallucination?
Jin Jianguo squeezed his thigh fiercely, making sure he didn't hear it wrong. That's strange, could it really be that the iron tree blossomed, and Chen Lang, who had been deaf and mute for 22 years, said?
Dumb talk shocked everyone
Jin Jianguo was surprised and surprised to find that yes, the voice just now was indeed from his wife Chen Lang. He hurriedly drew sign language, took Chen Lang's hand and asked if the "no" word just now was what she said.
At this time, Jin Jianguo hoped to be affirmed by his wife, but Chen Lang was also a little confused, and the habit of many years made her subconsciously shake her hand to deny it, and asked in sign language: "Did I just speak?" ”
The excitement in Jin Jianguo's heart suddenly turned into disappointment. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that someone had set off firecrackers a few years ago, and Chen Lang was actually frightened by the sound of firecrackers and covered his ears.
Jin Jianguo didn't care at the time, after all, everyone saw firecrackers habitually covering their ears, and Chen Lang may have learned from everyone. But now that I look at it again, the more I think about it, the more wrong it is, since my wife was born deaf and mute, then she must have never heard the sound of firecrackers, how could she be frightened to cover her ears?
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In addition, Chen Lang seems to be able to hear the music of MP3. Once, he put two headphones to Chen Lang's ear, and as the sound increased, she actually began to shake her body gently, and not randomly, but to the rhythm of the music.
In order to find out, Jin Jianguo turned on the MP3 and let his wife feel it with headphones. Unexpectedly, Chen Lang actually shook with the music again.
This discovery rekindled hope for Jin Jianguo, could his wife hear and speak?
So Jin Jianguo began to do some simple training for her, and after hundreds of attempts, Chen Lang could finally say a word.
Later, under the guidance of Jin Jianguo, simple phrases such as "dad" and "mom" could occasionally be shouted.
Although Chen Lang's pronunciation is not as good as ordinary people's standards, these are enough to surprise Jin Jianguo. He called his parents in a neighboring village and asked Chen Lang to say the simple name through his mobile phone.
Everyone was very shocked by Chen Lang's sudden transformation, and it was really impossible for a naturally deaf and mute person to speak. However, in addition to the shock, there was also a question that lingered in everyone's minds, since Chen Lang could hear and open her mouth, then why didn't she speak before? Could it be that Chen Lang's deafness is pretending?
In this regard, the neighbor who grew up watching Chen Lang firmly said: "It is impossible, I saw her grow up, she has not said a word for 22 years, can she still pretend for so long?" Besides, what is the use of her pretending to be a deaf and mute person! ”
When the neighbors heard that Chen Lang was suddenly no longer dumb, they also felt strange, and when they were idle, they ran to Chen Lang's house to sit and watch the liveliness.
Although these actions were initially motivated by curiosity, at some point, the villagers began to talk about Chen Lang's opening of his mouth.
Many superstitious older generations believe that Chen Lang rushed into the elves in the mountains on the wedding day, and only when he was possessed by them would he make such a sound, otherwise how to explain the sudden speech of a born deaf and mute person?
Originally, it was a happy thing for Chen Lang to be able to speak, but the rumors were getting more and more outrageous, and the in-laws and mother-in-laws were a little uncomfortable when they were pointed out in this way.
In order to block the mouths of the Yoyo people, and in order to find out why Chen Lang was suddenly able to speak, Jin Jianguo took his wife to the hospital in the city for a comprehensive examination.
Traveled to the hospital for treatment
At first, Jin Jianguo took his wife to an ordinary hospital. After examination, the doctor told Jin Jianguo that a large proportion of deaf and mute people are born to form, and most of them cannot speak because they have certain hearing impairments at birth.
Moreover, it is impossible for deaf-mute people to suddenly recover their speaking ability after adulthood, and without deliberate and professional training, they do not even know the meaning of each word, so it is completely coincidental that Chen Lang can suddenly say the word "no".
For this result, Jin Jianguo was very dissatisfied. If Chen Lang really couldn't hear anything, how could he explain covering his ears and swaying his body with music?
Therefore, he took his wife to the ENT department of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital and found Xiao Xuping, the chief physician, to solve the puzzle.
Unexpectedly, Director Xiao had just made a simple examination of Chen Lang and found strange places - Chen Lang's eardrums, external ear canals and auditory pathways, and even the language organs were completely normal, that is, under normal circumstances, she could hear people talking and talking.
This made Jin Jianguo feel incredible, if his wife is a normal person, then why does she wave her hand to show that she can't hear when others talk to her.
In order to verify Chen Lang's hearing system, Director Xiao gave her a more comprehensive examination. Soon the test results came out, but this test showed that Chen Lang's left ear was completely deaf, and only the right ear still had some residual hearing.
Moreover, this remaining hearing is also ineffective due to the abnormality of the inner ear hair cells. Inner ear hair cells are a vital part of hearing, determining whether the sounds heard by humans can be converted into electrical energy, and if not, they cannot conduct sound.
The damage to Chen Lang's inner ear hair cells is likely caused by genetic factors and the fact that her mother took drugs when she was pregnant.
In this regard, Jin Jianguo was very puzzled, since Chen Langdu had not heard a voice for 22 years, how did he suddenly say the word "no"?
Unexpectedly, the expert actually smiled slightly: "She can speak, you have a great credit." ”
Director Xiao explained that Chen Lang could not speak before because there was no one around her to speak.
Just as a child was raised by wolves, he hears the "howling" sound of wolves every day, and all he learns is "howling". Although his hearing and speech organs were all normal, he could not understand what humans were saying when he returned to the human world.
Chen Lang, like this "wolf child", has no voice at home for many years, and his only talking father is working outside. Without the external language stimulation, Chen Lang did not learn how to speak, and naturally could not understand what everyone was saying.
So although Chen Lang could hear the sound of firecrackers and music, and her language organ was normal, because no one told Chen Lang that she could actually speak, and no one taught her how to talk, Chen Lang had been silent for 22 years.
However, since Chen Lang and Jin Jianguo fell in love, Jin Jianguo spoke and sang in her ear every day, which stimulated the language system and auditory system that his wife had been silent for many years, so that she gradually had some concepts of language.
Coupled with the fact that Valentine's Day means a lot to Chen Lang, Jin Jianguo had to abandon her to find a friend, which made her have a stress reaction, so he blurted out the word "no".
Hearing this, Jin Jianguo scratched his head with some embarrassment, not expecting to inadvertently plant willows. Then he asked the crucial question: "Can my wife's hearing and speaking skills be restored?" ”
However, Director Xiao shook his head regretfully, and he said regretfully: "It is too late." ”
In the case of Chen Lang, if she can find out earlier, treat it earlier, and compensate for the lack of hearing by wearing a hearing aid or wearing a cochlear implant, then she can learn to speak like a normal person, but unfortunately she has missed the best time to learn to speak.
Chen Lang still has great difficulty in fully recovering her speaking ability, and even if she starts wearing hearing aids and conducting language training now, her learning ability may be far inferior to that of a baby.
But everything is not absolute. Director Xiao said that although the hope of full recovery is not particularly great, as long as Chen Langken works hard and has perseverance, there will be no problem with normal communication with his family in the future.
Hearing this, Jin Jianguo finally smiled happily. After returning home, he took his wife to repeated training every day.
Now Chen Lang can already say several words in a row, and he can hear the sound after putting on the hearing aid, and everything is developing in a beautiful direction.