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Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf is a 1989 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The book covers a variety of topics in Deaf studies , including sign language , the neurology of deafness, the history of the treatment of Deaf Americans , and linguistic and social challenges facing the Deaf community .
The accomplishments of Deaf artists have been noted with many factors contributing to a natural attraction to visual arts. Three factors have been noted: biological factor, isolation factor, and the Deaf essence factor. [14] As "people of the eye," Deaf people are naturally attracted to the visual arts. [14]
These films feature characters who pretend to be deaf or hard of hearing: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), an American comedy-drama film based on the 1962 novel of the same name which is set in a mental institution and features a Native American side character who is believed to be a deafmute, until revealed otherwise.
Deaf Like Me is a biographical book about a family who discovers their daughter, Lynn, is deaf, and deals with a language barrier. It was written by Thomas and James Spradley, Lynn's father and uncle, and originally published in 1979. It begins in November 1964, before Lynn was born, and ends in August 1975, when she was ten.
EXCLUSIVE: The story of the real-life 1988 protests at all-deaf Gallaudet University that became a watershed moment for the deaf community in the U.S. is being turned into a feature film. Jules ...
The film was reviewed by Brian Lowry for Variety; the review summary reads, "Hallmark and producer-director Joseph Sargent revisit deafness with a universal theme that contemplates the relationship of a minority group to society at large. Here, the pivotal question involves a choice unavailable to most minorities — whether they would opt out ...
A 2022 report from the National Research Group showed that 79% of deaf people believe there's been more representation in TV and film than there was in 2021, with 45% saying that Deaf ...
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