The main factors, including a deaf child's education, language exposure, and family dynamic, is what determines their link with the deaf identity and the hearing community. Though there is importance on family dynamics, which influences other factors of a deaf child's exposure. Every household and family is different, and when looking into the lives of deaf children with hearing parents, it is seen that most difficulties with identity formation stem from ignorance of Deaf identities and culture from hearing parents and individuals. With educational needs, many deaf children do not get sent to deaf schools by hearing parents, being sent to hearing ones which greatly affects their learning capabilities and have less expressive freedom. This also contributes to language exposure as deaf children are not taught to use ASL when in these hearing environments. This creates many communication barriers and ends up leaving the deaf child having to adapt. In contrast, when in households of a Deaf parent and deaf child, these factors and development of a child's deaf identity is much greater because Deaf parents are able to pass on their life
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