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Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Acceptance, Awareness, Rachel Naomi Remen, Forgiving, John Morton, Hearing, Light, Sai Baba, New Wealth Book Blog, Understanding, Norman Cousins, Deafness, Healing, Gary Zukav, Surrender, Helen Keller, Gratitude, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

Whatever you lose in the course of your life, there is something to gain. You may go through a period of "darkness," and at a certain moment, you may be able to see "light at the end of the tunnel."

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Deaf People Speak Out Against Hearing Actor Portraying Deaf Role

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Marcel Proust, Berryville, Daniel Krotz, James Lee Burke, Duck Joke, Deafness, Arkansas, The Inner Life, Healthy 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 Bell | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 Bell

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 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Deafness, Arkansas, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss, Berryville, Bookseller, Deaf Culture, Healthy 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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