Like in a trance, she stepped towards it subconsciously, her ear deaf to Lianda's callings. |
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I was kind of deaf in one ear, and was scared at the time that it would never get better. |
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If the linguistic space is sign language, then the deaf infant will acquire language in that modality. |
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He also knew of elders from a previous generation who were deaf and used sign language. |
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When environmental concerns were initially raised, early on, Government turned a deaf ear. |
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She just accepted what the book said about how to feed our daughter, and turned a deaf ear to me, even if the hungry baby was crying for milk. |
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Ever get the feeling our Prime Minister just turns a deaf ear whenever he's given information that doesn't fit neatly with his politics? |
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The fact of the matter is, this administration has turned a deaf ear to the industrial heartland. |
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The passage assumes that the blind will, in fact, want their sight back and the deaf to hear again, the lame to walk properly and dumb to speak. |
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Once we had this physics lesson with a relief teacher because our normal teacher was off sick and Andy pretended to be deaf. |
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I couldn't quite hear him because I stepped on a landmine and the explosion has made me deaf. |
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In her complaint to the SSP, Ms Suman alleged that the despite repeated representations the local police turned a deaf ear to their grievances. |
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The type preferred by most deaf adults is American Sign Language, which has rules and grammar that is distinct from English. |
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Harvey found most deaf children and their hearing parents unable to communicate in the primary language system of Ameslan. |
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When the property management company turned a deaf ear to residents' advice, residents refused to pay the fees. |
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Unfortunately, these same people can turn a deaf ear when forced to listen to someone else's point of view. |
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The bishop has turned a deaf ear to their repeated pleas to him to reverse this decision. |
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The Minister is turning a deaf ear to the pleas of the people on the ground who know first hand what the situation is. |
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She went deaf when she was a baby, before the age of the cochlear implant, as a side effect of polio. |
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Both are even apparent in children who have been blind and deaf from birth, who differentiate strangers from familiars by their smell. |
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He always thought that his main mission in life, and his greatest pleasure, was in teaching the deaf. |
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One horse is biddable and can learn to obey commands, but the other is both deaf and violent, and so can be controlled only by force. |
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Since the middle of the night between Wednesday and Thursday I've been totally deaf in my left ear. |
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Millions of pounds have been paid to deaf train drivers, workshop staff and trackmen. |
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This fell upon deaf ears to the Secret Service, which quickly dispatched two agents to shadow the president. |
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By bypassing the normal hearing apparatus it provides an artificial hearing sensation to deaf people. |
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For deaf children a stronger connection should exist between orthographic and semantic features. |
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They are stone deaf, they fly up and down the road and play tig with the buses. |
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After lengthy court battles and broken promises, the residents plight continued to fall on deaf ears. |
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Michaels barked, pounding out crisp sharp words that so thundered with command that even the untrained and deaf would jump to obey. |
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Is he deaf to the unceasing thunder of millions upon millions of voices in the streets of the world declaring peace on war? |
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A deaf person, more often than not, delays seeking medical help, partly due to the wrong notion that his condition is incurable. |
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Mary Kershaw says her profoundly deaf grandson has not even been seen by a speech therapist. |
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Many student activists continued to advocate an electoral boycott, a campaign which has fallen on deaf ears among the mass of the population. |
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A deaf person taps out their message on a textphone and the text is then read aloud by the operator to a hearing person. |
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Tawny Owl Nicki Paull is deaf herself and has volunteered to teach any of the brownies who are interested how to communicate using sign. |
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His pleas fell on deaf ears as the jury took less than an hour to find him guilty. |
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He is slightly deaf but the movement from my horse and the crowd behind me catches the tail of his eye. |
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The central characters will be genuinely deaf, but he wants to audition local people for the rest of the cast. |
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They all sell ear plugs designed to reduce the assault on your poor lugholes without rendering you completely deaf. |
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A disabled and profoundly deaf man is tackling an army assault course to help fund a trip of a lifetime to New Zealand. |
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Occasionally, events roused the deaf community to take political action, and these occasions provide the most interesting parts of the book. |
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Pijfers investigated whether Dutch deaf children used an articulatory code or a sign code in reading and which code led to the best results. |
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Although signing is an international language Ashton says he expects to be working with deaf children who are not familiar with it. |
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The system is based on simple signs and gestures derived from British Sign Language for the deaf taught through song. |
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These findings suggest that the addition of signs to speech facilitates word recognition by deaf children. |
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Neither she or her elderly dog who is partly blind and deaf were woken up by the shrill bleep of the smoke alarm. |
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Remember when we had to write an essay, answering that question-would you rather be blind or deaf? |
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Few people deafened in middle age become proficient in sign language or identify strongly with deaf culture. |
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The choreography was all worked out and the dancers had learned their steps, but poor David has two left feet and is tone deaf. |
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He is a strong advocate for reopening Aranda House as a youth refuge, but says his appeals to the NT Government are falling on deaf ears. |
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The most severely afflicted children may be severely deaf, suffer heart problems and kidney abnormalities. |
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The videophone is already being used to let patients talk remotely to doctors, and by deaf people to communicate in sign language. |
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They are also organising a paintball war game for deaf and hearing members. |
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Fortunately, one of the nurses at the surgery has a deaf relative and has picked up some sign language along the way. |
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One-year-old Eva Heeks contracted meningitis soon after birth, leaving her blind, deaf and unable to walk, talk or feed properly. |
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They even learnt sign language because of having a deaf boy there, which was excellent. |
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She was blind and deaf to every other sight and sound aside from the swirling patterns. |
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She is profoundly deaf and will rely on communicating with the rest of the crew by sign language. |
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Bravo to the captain of the ship for acting on his good conscience when his distress signals fell on deaf ears. |
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Bethany also acts as her parents' ears as both are deaf, since contracting measles in childhood. |
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Two weeks ago my left ear gave early signs of problems, a little sore and deaf. |
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I heard a programme on the radio yesterday, an interview with a stand up comedian, Steve Day, who happens to be deaf. |
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But her words fell upon deaf ears, Tane was moving, spinning, whirling around with tears in his eyes. |
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I was sure that she must have gone deaf because she didn't answer until I was merely a few feet away from her. |
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A wild-eyed man who worships Neil Diamond and was deaf as a child is second. |
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However one British expert claimed previous efforts by him to win support for such work had fallen on deaf ears. |
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I winced in pain, so distracted by his intensity that I was deaf to the clunking of boots on the concrete floor. |
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However, I propose that in the case of topicalization, young deaf children have exploited an alternative, prosodic way of marking topics that is easily overlooked. |
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As hearing parents, they had little knowledge of ASL, deaf culture and the mess that is deaf education system was. |
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The comparison is not grotesque, since Samuragochi is, like Beethoven, deaf. |
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He was expected to be blind, deaf, unable to speak, and quadriplegic. |
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The deaf culture advocates tell me I should fling away my Ci and make my home within the community. |
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Our government and politicians are blind and deaf on this issue. |
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If you're born deaf, the debate about cochlear implants, children and deaf cultural rights will touch your life in some way. |
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Bowman claims that she told both her agent and an attorney about the incident, but her allegations fell on deaf ears. |
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Her deafness was always a source of pride, but here she is forced to see how deaf individuals can be robbed of their own agency. |
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One of the young men we support has taught himself the deaf and dumb language in order to witness to this neglected and marginalised group of people in Russian society. |
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I just found it depressingly tone deaf for a show that typically handles these sensitive issues so delicately. |
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Should they be seeking to bridge the gap between the hearing and deaf communities or maintain a stance of isolation and seclusion? |
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Pat Behan, a Castledermot mechanic, who could make the lame walk, the dumb speak and the deaf hear when it came to cars, was asked to perform a major miracle. |
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William James quoting from the childhood reminiscences of Ballard, a deaf mute, and Laura Brigman's case, a blind-deaf mute, however, illustrate the two points aptly enough. |
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Every classroom should have a deaf teacher as well as one who can hear so that children are exposed to both sign and spoken language simultaneously. |
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She taught ballroom dancing to the blind and deaf, and even worked as a food processor at a frozen-food factory. |
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Each of the flats for the deaf has been set up with a computer video link, enabling the deaf tenants to communicate in sign language with workers in the staff base. |
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He outlined the practice of audism in which deaf people shun the traditional deaf community and signing, preferring to use residual hearing, speech and lip-reading. |
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And so those closest to the ghastly virus remain deaf to hashtags, and silent. |
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The town developed a sign language that everyone in the town used, deaf or not. |
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After his request for a cup of tea fell on deaf ears, by way of protest, he is reported to have sent a cross letter to Central Office with a tea bag attached. |
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There, he befriends a deaf girl and her hockey-playing brother. |
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He often has to ask people to repeat themselves because he's a little deaf. |
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I suggested to the Council that they should put a mini-roundabout at the junction of Cottingley Cliffe Road and Moor Road but it fell on deaf ears. |
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This can make physicians in small practices loathe to take on deaf patients, as they may lose money once they have billed insurance and paid for an interpreter. |
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Such monaural listening conditions occur not only in people who are deaf in one ear, but when a sound on one side is too quiet to reach one of the ears. |
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Like any parent whose pockets are empty, I turned a deaf ear. |
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But the banking industry is apparently turning a deaf ear to the central bank's call as bank lending still stood high at around 17 percent to 18 percent. |
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While society turns a deaf ear to such helpless women, it gives full credence to unmarried females who are at liberty to decide the fates of innocent males. |
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In spite of this, I sometimes feel like turning a deaf ear to their words, because often mindless politicians are not prudent when they make speeches in public. |
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Unfortunately, despite the protests that women's organisations have made over the years, successive governments seem to have turned a deaf ear to their pleas. |
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On this occasion, the Coalition has turned a deaf ear to the advice of the Attorney General and an independent legal expert, both of whom believe it to be unconstitutional. |
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If a mutation makes a single cell deaf to the needs of its body, it can develop into a tumor. |
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Jackson, the state's capital city, is the site of the state residential school for deaf and hard of hearing students. |
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And grandmother sat in her rocker before the fireplace, deaf as a doorpost and half-blind as well. |
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Peter, a non-drinker who was believed to be 59 years old, was employed at Unit 3, Veracity Works in Foundry Lane by deaf and dumb Arthur Wheeler. |
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That, as Housman says, it unblinds the blind, gives speech to the mute, and opens the ears of the deaf. |
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Bell worked extensively in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. |
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The deaf communities use Polish Sign Language belonging to the German family of Sign Languages. |
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Without a change of countenance, as if he were deaf to her entreaties and threats, he tuned up the banjo, and played a breakdown. |
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There are also tournaments for players with disabilities, such as wheelchair tennis and deaf tennis. |
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The emergence of sound film effectively separated deaf from hearing audience members once again. |
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Let us not balance the books of oppression of the deaf on the backs and minds of other oppressed linguistic ethnic and cultural minorities. |
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I was deaf in one ear, however, and the otologists always advised me against being around loud music. |
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Her parents decided to put her in a special school for deaf children. |
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It was the sort of result that gets you re-tuning your set or buying a new deaf aid. |
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He was subject to seizures, may have been deaf and dumb, and she chose to send him out to be fostered. |
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Some argued that oralism was the best way to teach language to the deaf, while others argued that manualism worked best. |
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Derby has also become a significant cultural centre for the deaf community in Britain. |
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American Sign Language is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of anglophone Canada. |
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Sarah Jane Mitchell If you are deaf it is very difficult to lipread a person if you can't see their face. |
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The federal lawsuit was filed on August 2, 2012, by Megan Runnion, who is deaf and was 12 years old at the time. |
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Some espouse deaf culture as the better, more natural, way of life. |
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Pleas to control seal and sawbill duck populations have fallen on deaf y ears. |
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Such a scattergun approach to the pacing and gameplay may make you smirk, even though the woeful gags fall on deaf ears. |
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Years of working under such noisy conditions ultimately left him stone deaf. |
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Jack Ashley continued to serve as an MP for 25 years after becoming profoundly deaf. |
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Earlier, they met deaf teenagers at an education centre in Botswana's capital Gaborone. |
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Martineau began losing her senses of taste and smell at a young age, becoming increasingly deaf and having to use an ear trumpet. |
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The recreolization studies focus upon individual cases of recreolization within a broader population of deaf signers. |
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It is vital to have a good knowledge of the deaf community and to have excellent BSL skills. |
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Language contact is extremely common in most deaf communities, which are almost always located within a dominant oral language culture. |
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Kuchum replied, describing himself as deaf and blind and without subsistence and said that he had not submitted before and would not submit now. |
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The languages of the deaf community are American Sign Language and its local variant, Puerto Rican Sign Language. |
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Movies had become one of America's more important cultural products, but talkies excluded deaf people from the mainstream of American society. |
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Roosevelt was tired of preaching to deaf ears. He was ready to try something else. |
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I trust that Cardiff council will endeavour to publicise its minicom number by consulting the deaf people of Cardiff. |
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A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent. |
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But the buxom beauty's sob story fell on deaf ears as the repo men towed the vehicle. |
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Australia has a sign language known as Auslan, which is the main language of about 5,500 deaf people. |
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For at least a century, the education of children who are deaf has been polarized into two main camps, the manualists and the oralists. |
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She had poor hearing since childhood due to measles, and by the 1940s she was almost completely deaf. |
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The schnorchel also had the effect of making the boat essentially noisy and deaf in sonar terms. |
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We conducted a study of nasality in 6 deaf children who had undergone cochlear implantation. |
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Nonsigning parents may have trouble communicating with their deaf children. |
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Males play no part in rearing the young, which are born blind, deaf, toothless and covered in fine white or pinkish down. |
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In education, its use for Iceland's deaf community is regulated by the National Curriculum Guide. |
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They are programmed like Stepford Wives and I am sure they are deaf as well. |
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He has used hearing aids since 1979, but realised he was going deaf long before that. |
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Her mum says that she is deaf and only partially sighted, so I need to go and stand in front of her, so she can see the gift. |
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Thus, when libraries have acquired TTYS, librarians are often disappointed that so few deaf persons call them. |
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All you have to do is use the free travel, have a sit down, a snooze or a read, and if you happen to wear a deaf aid you can always turn it off to avoid the discussions. |
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An international auxiliary sign language has been developed by deaf people who meet regularly at international forums such as sporting events or in political organisations. |
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And WAC founder Paul Garnault says that pleas for financial assistance from the Welsh Assembly Government, which would salvage the tour, have fallen on deaf ears. |
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Frayn was born to a deaf asbestos salesman in Mill Hill, a suburb of London, grew up in Ewell, Surrey, and was educated at Kingston Grammar School. |
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Zach Tenhaeff, a retail sales representative with the T-Mobile Direct store in Eugene says nearly half the Sidekicks he sells are to deaf or hard of hearing customers. |
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Sorenson Communications' videophones and Video Relay Service have revolutionized business and personal communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. |
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He told of how he found out he needed a deaf aid one day, heartburn pills the next and was diagnosed with prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease the next. |
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Everyone is blind and deaf in their own private dancescapes. |
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While in Rome he suffered a severe cold, which left him partially deaf, and, as a result, he began to carry a small ear trumpet with which he is often pictured. |
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I had a grim sense of amusement on finding that the old woman was not deaf, for she went out, and presently came back with a gourdful, which I eagerly drank. |
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Whereas the Sublime Porte initially turned a deaf ear to Mgr Hubaysh's Lebanism, the Maronite Church used the latter to skillfully forge an alliance with France. |
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The RNID, who arrange projects and services and try to improve everyday living for deaf people, are organising sponsored 10,000 feet skydives throughout March and April. |
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Since Hearthstone was deaf, he didn't notice until it was too late. |
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The First Day of Issue ceremony was held on October 28 in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where Bell spent considerable time on research and working with the deaf. |
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It is estimated that the deaf population in Derby is at least three times higher than the national average, and that only London has a larger deaf population. |
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Hull's private school for the deaf in South Kensington, London. |
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They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. |
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Aside from her time in Vaudeville, Trudy taught swimming to deaf children. |
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Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up. |
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The result, however, was that he became permanently deaf on that side. |
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He developed dementia, and became completely blind and increasingly deaf. |
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Lorries have flashing beacons and reversing bleepers, but what if someone who is walking behind one is blind, deaf, or just cannot walk very fast to get out of the way? |
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And prosperity itself was regularly described as a spiritual illness, anesthetizing the consciences of the rich, making the wealthy deaf to the cries of the poor. |
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In real life, Capone's son Albert, known as Sonny, developed the condition mastoiditis, aged seven, and only survived after risky brain surgery that left him partially deaf. |
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As a very young child, he suffered a fever that left him deaf in one ear. |
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Apart frombeingatad tone deaf, I can still woo-woo and aha along with the best of them, providing some sort of backing to the renowned queen of soul Gladys Knight. |
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