Nyle DiMarco Reads To Deaf Kids In Video Clip

Dancing With the Stars champ Nyle DiMarco reads to Deaf kids in 'adorable' video clip from Twitter.

FREDERICK, MD -- People Magazine: On Friday, the Deaf model who won America's Next Top Model cycle 22 in 2015 and the most recent season of Dancing With the Stars earlier this year took to Twitter to share a heartwarming video.

The clip shows Nyle DiMarco, 26, signing with two young kids and asking them to name the colors in a picture book.

In his own words, the result is quite simply "adorable."

Reading a book about colors to two little Deaf kids!

ADORABLE. pic.twitter.com/TEztWZvlsU

— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) July 29, 2016

Earlier this year, the showstopper told PEOPLE he "never wanted to hear."

"That's never existed in my life," he said. "I'm happy!"

The model and actor was born in New Jersey and raised in Frederick, Maryland, by his single mom and he's just one of more than 25 Deaf people in his family: His twin brother, his older brother, his parents, grandparents and great-grandparent are all Deaf.

"Growing up, I was always involved in the Deaf community," said the star, who recently established the Nyle DiMarco Foundation which advocates that parents teach their Deaf children American Sign Language even if they plan on getting their child a cochlear implant or hearing aid.

"I started to realize that there are a lot of people who are unaware of Deaf Culture, and I've been given a great platform to reframe the Deaf community," he told PEOPLE. "I want to use my celebrity for good."

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Implants, Signing Let Deaf Kids Be Bilingual

Deaf News: Implants, signing let Deaf kids be bilingual: Research experts.

Parents of Deaf children face a critical responsibility to learn and use sign language, according to a majority of hearing experts quoted in the journal Pediatrics, although the question of whether or not to sign has grown increasingly controversial.

Ten thousand infants are born yearly in the U.S. with sensorineural deafness, and data suggest that half receive cochlear implants, small devices that help provide a sense of sound to profoundly Deaf individuals.

While some specialists advise that all Deaf children, with or without cochlear implants, learn sign language, others fear that learning sign language will interfere with the demanding rehabilitation needed to maximize the cochlear device. Still others worry that asking parents to learn a new language quickly is too burdensome.

In an “Ethics Rounds” feature in Pediatrics, nine experts from hearing and language-associated fields share their perspectives and conclude, “The benefits of learning sign language clearly outweigh the risks. For parents and families who are willing and able, this approach seems clearly preferable to an approach that focuses solely on oral communication," in which the child would depend only on the cochlear device or other auditory-verbal approaches.

John Lantos, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, writes in the journal, “The more languages they learn, the better these children will be able to communicate.”

Lantos told Reuters Health that too many children who receive cochlear implants fail to achieve full functionality in the hearing world. “If the idea is to give kids the most potential to communicate in the most ways that they can, it seems like learning both is the best approach.”

Linguist Donna Jo Napoli contributed one of the most urgent arguments for full adoption of sign language. “Children should be surrounded by sign language as much as possible as soon as the audiological status is determined," she told Reuters Health. "If the child gets a cochlear implant and does well with it, fantastic. Then the child is bi-lingual...Read The Full Story.

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