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Demonstrates selected signs used by deaf people in 16 countries around the world for common, everyday items. Each signer was shown pictures of selected objects, and then demonstrated the sign(s) used in their native Sign Language to represent each object. These signs are "citation forms" not appearing in the context of a sentence.
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1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln’s war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode Two begins with the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln’s administration and then follows Union General George McClellan’s ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula, where his huge army meets a smaller but infinitely more resourceful Confederate force. During this episode we witness...
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With unprecedented access to families, the courts, and psychiatric and correctional institutions, this documentary examines the crisis in mental health care for children and adolescents at risk. Cesar is severely depressed and has threatened to kill himself. His mother is afraid to take him home but there is no treatment bed available. Raised by her grandmother, teenager Antonia tried to cut her wrists after her mother failed to appear for a Mother's...
8) Big enough
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Meet four couples leading typical American lives, pursuing typical middle-class careers and living in the suburbs with their children. Yet all have grown up facing challenges that are anything but typical because all but one of them are dwarfs, though they prefer to be termed "little people". Little People, a project produced in 1981, chronicled the birth of a new consciousness among dwarfs and was nominated for an Emmy. This documentary revisits...
11) Ear and now
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Armed with techniques for listening, youngsters are now prepared to put their ears immediately to work in the challenging program. Created in a fun and instructive manner, children will be encouraged to become detectives as they listen to the sounds.
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Cochlear implants could soon make a lifetime of profound deafness a thing of the past-and in the process bring an end to America's vibrant Deaf culture. In this program, NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser takes a balanced look at the implications of cochlear implant technology on the Deaf community. Dr. John Niparko, director of The Listening Center at Johns Hopkins; King Jordan, president of Gallaudet University; and others share their markedly...
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With more than 30 million deaf and hard of hearing individuals living in the U.S. Deaf culture thrives in America. Yet although Deaf performers are famous within their own community, they remain largely unknown to hearing audiences. See What I'm Saying focuses on four deaf performers -- actor Robert DeMayo, singer T.L. Forsberg, drummer Bob Hiltermann, and comic C.J. Jones -- over the course of one year as they endeavor to cross over into mainstream...
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Intended for people with a previous knowledge of ASL to take their knowledge of ASL to the next level with this series of advanced American Sign Language training programs. This series utilizes the skills and techniques of performers and teachers with extensive experience in the deaf community and deaf education. Each individual program presents a lecture, signed by Angela Stratiy, that focuses on a significant facet of ASL. The lecture is then...
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Haley and Madonna, winner of a number of film and video awards and broadcast nationally on PBS, is the story of Haley Crabtree, a 13 year-old girl born with cerebral palsy who dreams of one day being in the Miss America pageant. Even though she becomes familiar with and makes the acquaintance of many pageant participants, she especially becomes close friends with Madonna Emond, a contestant in the Miss America pageant who at an early age broke her...
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Looks at what happened to the Artinian Family after their story captured audiences around the world in the original documentary Sound and Fury. That story focuses on the struggle of a family over the surgical placement of a cochlear implant in Heather, their deaf daughter, and their ultimate decision to reject the idea. In this stand-alone follow-up film, Heather at age nine did get the implant as did her Mother and two younger brothers. Now at...
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Shows the effectiveness of cochlear implants for children by following two sets of twins for three years after implantation. Each set has one deaf twin and one hearing twin. Two of the twins are from the video, "Sound and Fury". The comparison between the deaf and hearing child's language development is shown.
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After 65 years of silence, Paul and Sally Taylor decide to undergo cochlear implant surgery and explore a totally unfamiliar world - the realm of sound. In this personal memoir, the filmmaker documents her deaf parents' complex decision to undergo this risky and controversial medical procedure, the only surgical procedure that can restore one of the five senses. This is a moving story of two people who embark on a journey from silence to sound. ...
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Do you know the best opposite for "active social life", "compassionate" and "insecure" in ASL for example? Good news: these 3 examples are part of 100+ most important yet very tricky antonyms taught in ASL. Tricky Words in ASL: Antonyms contains challenging antonyms in ASL that will help each and every viewer, of all levels and experience, how to maintain a superior level of correct translations as well as very advanced communication skills. Each...
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Do you know the best opposite for "active social life", "compassionate" and "insecure" in ASL for example? Good news: these 3 examples are part of 100+ most important yet very tricky antonyms taught in ASL. Tricky Words in ASL: Antonyms contains challenging antonyms in ASL that will help each and every viewer, of all levels and experience, how to maintain a superior level of correct translations as well as very advanced communication skills. Each...
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