Helen Keller said, “Blindness cuts me off from things;deafness cuts me off from people.”

The loss of hearing be it pre-lingual or post-lingual, creates a barrier for human communication. What Helen Keller infers with the statement she makes is: that vision separated her from seeing objects, but sound cut her off from hearing and developing the most common method of communication in hearing and speaking language. Development of linguistics begins in early stages of child development where and infant responds to human voices and eventually emulates this in the conceptualization of language, and eventual development of syntax. What Helen Keller lacked in her childhood, before she was taught by a wise teacher (Anne Sullivan). Keller is an example of how important hearing is for development of language and communication (though other methods of language are very useful, i.e. sign language). Without being able to hear or see language being formulated, it is extremely difficult to convey any ideas or information other than the most primitive emotions.