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Theater review: 'Children of a Lesser God' from Beth Marshall Presents
It's not uncommon in life to hear — but not actually listen. Ask any long-married couple. Or the parent of a toddler. Or, for that matter, the parent of a teenager. Humankind, in fact, has made rather an art of communication in which the true...
Tags: Marlee Matlin, Winter Garden, Arts and Culture, Celebrities
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EEOC claims Toys 'R' Us discriminated against deaf job applicant
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Toys "R" Us, alleging the company broke the law when staff at its Columbia store refused to provide a sign-language interpreter for a job applicant who is deaf. The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S....
Tags: Services and Shopping, Laws, Toy Industry, Career and Workplace, Justice System
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Timber Creek's PIT Crew puts pedal to metal to help special needs students
Because a schoolmate didn't quit, Lauren Sherry stuck with it, too. A student was having difficulty catching a ball during a game. The task was challenging, but the boy would not be denied. "He didn't get it at first, but he caught it at the end,''...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Autism, Students, Taylor Swift, Marc Jackson
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Review: 'Tribes' will be heard — and felt
In the intellectually raucous British household of Nina Raine's "Tribes," family members don't so much talk as assault each other with monologues. The dinner table cacophony consists of scraps of debate, ironic jabs, aesthetic proclamations, academic...
Tags: Roy Rogers, Health and Safety at School
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'Tribes' uncovers a dysfunction both silent and spoken
In the play "Tribes," a young deaf man with a boisterous, hearing family learns something from a new girlfriend that his parents and siblings never bothered to teach him: how to sign. He had always been expected to keep up with them by reading lips....
Tags: Music, Genetic Condition, Roy Rogers, Tinnitus, Celebrities
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“Switched at Birth” episode to be broadcast entirely in American Sign Language
Channel Guide MagazineSwitched at Birth: “Uprising” airs Monday, March 4, at 8pm ET on ABC Family. For those worried about the prospect of watching an hour of television entirely in sign language — that means no voices or ambient noise — Switched at... -
'Switched at Birth' airs groundbreaking episode tonight
ABC Family will make history tonight, airing an episode of “Switched at Birth” completely in American Sign Language, with subtitles for hearing viewers. It's something the network says has never been done before on scripted, mainstream...Tags: Gallaudet University, ABC Family (tv network), Washington, DC
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Brotman: Decades later, moms' balancing act is as tough as ever
Twenty years ago, when I was deep into my working mother juggling act, I would curse my generation's timing. For the women who come after us, I thought, it would surely be easier. Corporate America would no doubt stop being shocked — shocked!...
Tags: Marissa Mayer, Homes, New Products
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Device for the hearing impaired uses bone, not air, to conduct sound
marieg@herald-mail.comNothing can prepare a person for living in silence. After all, the world is filled with sound — car horns beeping, babies crying, conversations and music bouncing off the walls of a noisy restaurant. But sometimes, those sounds disappear, either...Tags: Metal, Hospitals and Clinics, Insurance, Physiology, Ear Infection
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Hearing loss partially reversed in noise-damaged ears of mice
Anyone who’s gone to too many rock concerts or worked with loud machinery for too long (or listened to too many kazillion-decibel advertisements at a movie theater) may eventually pay the price: hearing loss caused by damage to tiny, sound-...
Tags: Harvard Medical School, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Science and Technology
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Hearing loss, cognitive decline associated in older people, study says
Hearing loss among older adults appears to be associated with faster cognitive decline than people without hearing loss, researchers found. The study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday suggests that, on average, individuals with...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Alzheimer's Disease, Internal Medicine, Internists
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