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Deaf People Speak Out Against Hearing Actor Portraying Deaf Role

Lennard Davis | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Deafness, Theater, Acting, New York Theater, New-York-Theater-Workshop, Deaf, Disability Rights, Entertainment News
Lennard Davis

The normal education in the US involves extensive training in speech for deaf people. While not all will end up speaking in ways that might work on stage, so many can.

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On Deafness And The Middle Distance

Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Marcel Proust, Berryville, Daniel Krotz, James Lee Burke, Duck Joke, Deafness, Arkansas, The Inner Life, Living News
Daniel Krotz

Deaf and near-deaf people such as myself operate in a world I think was best captured by classical Chinese painters. Their pictures have no middle distance: we see figures in the foreground, and we see mountains in the far ground, but what we see in the middle is left to the imagination and must be perceived.

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What Health Care Reform Means For The Deaf

Noelle Cigarroa Perese | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deafness, Health Reform, 2009, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cochlear Implant, White House, Health Care Reform, Asl, National Association for the Deaf, American Sign Language, Politics News
Noelle Cigarroa Perese

Imagine that: being told that my deafness, which makes up a huge part of my identity, is a "pre-existing condition" which I could be denied access to care for.

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On Deafness

Daniel Krotz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Deafness, Arkansas, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss, Berryville, Bookseller, Deaf Culture, Living News
Daniel Krotz

I am almost entirely deaf. I don't mind very much. I've heard just about everything already and I don't think I'll miss hearing it the second or third time around.

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