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What's life like when you can hear but your parents are deaf? Following this year's Oscar-winning turn for the film CODA, children of deaf adults in ...

Grace, on the other hand, is “slightly reluctant” to move out as she sees her parents getting on. While Shona and Dipikha feel that their parents need them, the adults do not expect that of them. Their mother teaches sign language part-time to pre-school children in a Singapore Association for the Deaf programme. “I wanted to celebrate my mum, to show that she’s like any other mum. For example, you may have learnt to say “milk” when your parents gave you a bottle and said the word, he cited. “Then I’m like, ‘Call the manager lah!’ What did I have to lose?” she recounted. As for Grace, her parents bought a piano and a drum set and encouraged her and her three siblings to play music. “It makes them feel like they’re being excluded from the conversation,” he acknowledged. If you don’t want (to), just go to the back lah!” Because when I was playing the piano, they always pretended they could hear and clapped along.” Without talking much to her parents and other relatives at home, she grew up quiet and reserved. The next thing they knew, they were signing their bedtime stories and the Bible along with their parents.