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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 .
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.
Deaf artists create and use art in any form and are held to the same standards as any other artist. De'VIA is created when the Deaf artists wants to express their Deaf identity and/or Deaf experience through their art. It is possible for Deaf artists not to work within De'VIA. [14]
Wonderstruck (2011) is an American young-adult fiction novel written and illustrated by Brian Selznick, who also created The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007). In Wonderstruck, Selznick continued the narrative approach of his last book, using both words and illustrations — though in this book he separates the illustrations and the writings into their own story and weaves them together at the end.
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 ...
From Oregon School for the Deaf to the film industry. Both brothers went to college at Gallaudet University, a school in Washington, D.C., for people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Alice Cogswell Award for service to deaf people 2009 Betty Gloria Miller [ 1 ] (July 27, 1934 – December 3, 2012), [ 2 ] [ 3 ] also known as Bettigee (which was her signature on her artworks) [ 4 ] was an American artist who became known as the "Mother of De'VIA " (Deaf View/Image Art).