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  2. Tommy Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison was born completely blind due to an underdeveloped optic nerve. [2] He was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Canterbury School and the University of Bridgeport, where he studied music. [3] He has credited his parents for treating him the same as his sighted sisters during his upbringing. [10]

  3. Deafblindness - Wikipedia

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    It was designed as a TTY for deaf-blind people and is also useful for face-to-face conversation. It has two components: The sighted component is a modified SuperCom TTY device. It has a qwerty keyboard and a single-line LED display. The display is regular size and is not particularly suited to people with low vision.

  4. List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing - Wikipedia

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    The American rom-com stars Ashton Kutcher as a hearing man developing a relationship with a hearing woman over seven years; deaf actor Ty Giordano plays his deaf brother. [53] Looking for Mr. Goodbar: 1977: The American drama film features a hearing teacher of deaf children who goes clubbing in her free time. [2] [54] [4] Love Is Never Silent: 1985

  5. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    For example, someone with auditory–tactile synesthesia may experience that hearing a specific word or sound feels like touch in one specific part of the body or may experience that certain sounds can create a sensation in the skin without being touched (not to be confused with the milder general reaction known as frisson, which affects ...

  6. Deaf culture - Wikipedia

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    An introduction to Deaf culture in American Sign Language (ASL) with English subtitles available. Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.

  7. Guide dog - Wikipedia

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    The second line of the popular verse alphabet "A was an Archer" is most commonly "B was a Blind-man/Led by a dog". [2] In Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 19th-century verse novel Aurora Leigh, the title character remarks, "The blind man walks wherever the dog pulls / And so I answered."

  8. Are deaf drivers under any restrictions? Here’s what states ...

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    Hearing loss and deafness can cause a driver to miss out on some useful information in their surroundings, but our decisions as we drive are the biggest factor in making it home safely. Ask Road ...

  9. Human echolocation - Wikipedia

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    Human echolocation is the ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating sounds: for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths.