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"Growing up Windell has always seen his father and mothsr recount their life story. Windell got to see firsthand ASL storytelling, living the experiences and feeling the jolt from the twist and turns, even if it was the hundredth time he seen the story. Seeing and feeling these ASL stories had lead Windell to the creation of a live show in order to share his parents beautiful story with the twist and turns he beheld growing up in a Deaf home. Audiences...
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Follows the story of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device, the cochlear implant, that can help a deaf family member hear but may also threaten deaf culture. Some of the family members celebrate the implant as a long overdue cure for deafness while others fear it will destroy their language and way of life.
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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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Since 2004, Alan Abarbanell has toured the U.S. with his acclaimed one-man show "The Abababa Road Tour", chronicling his experiences growing up hearing in a deaf family. Abababa - a name give to him by a friend who could not pronounce Abarbanell - is a proud CODA (child of deaf adults) and a member of CODA International. Alan wrote this performance sharing his tales of growing up hearing in a deaf world and presented it at the Imagination Stage...
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Features the birth experiences of six Deaf couples who share a variety of factors and complications that occurred before, during, and after the births of their children. Some of the topics discussed and shared are first child, second and third child, going to the hospital, the deliverty, post-delivery, working with an interpreter, and preferences for a hearing or a deaf child. This project can be used to develop an itnerpreter's knowledge and skill...
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An insightful memoir about growing up between the hearing and deaf worlds.
Myron Uhlberg was born the hearing son of two deaf parents at a time when American Sign Language was not well established and deaf people were often dismissed as being unintelligent. In this moving and eye-opening memoir, he recalls the daily difficulties and hidden joys of growing up as the intermediary between his parents' silent world and the world of the
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Tells the story of Asaka, a deaf woman who lives in Japan. She is determined to start an acting group in her small town with the support of her daughter, Ai, who is hearing. Through her struggles and successes, she inspires both deaf and hearing people to work together to accomplish great things.
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"Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear, and having a deaf child is not analogous to having a hearing child who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, deaf children are far more diverse than their hearing age-mates. A lack of access to language, limited incidental learning and social interactions, as well as the possibility of secondary disabilities, mean that deaf children face a variety of challenges in language,...
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In this memoir, a daughter looks back on her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while trying to reconcile it to her present life, one in which her father is serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum-security prison. As a child, she wished that she had been born deaf so that she, too, could fully belong to the tight-knit deaf community that embraced her parents. Her beautiful mother was a saint who would swiftly correct anyone's...
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Focuses on growing up within a deaf family by sharing expereicnes of deaf adults and their hearing children. The stories told give a special glimpse into the many challenges faced by these families. By way of humor and reflection, the anecdotes portray the emotions, cultural differences, expectations, and accomodations that need to be made by all family members.
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