• First Barbie doll with hearing aids is 'really important' - Rose Ayling-Ellis -- BBCNews (16 August 2022)
  
  
• American Girl releases first doll with hearing loss -- Hearing Like Me
  
  
• The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use -- BBCworklife (05 April 2021)
  
  
• For the Deaf, Social Distancing Can Mean Social Isolation -- The New York Times (04 June 2020)
  
  
• Tanzanian cafe where all the staff are deaf -- BBCNews (06 November 2017)
  
  
• From Pantomime to Sign: How Sign Language Evolves -- Science (08 April 2016)
  
  
• When It Comes to Learning for the Deaf, 'It's a 3-D Language' -- NPR (28 June 2015)
  
  
• Hearing: 5 Future Technology Innovations from IBM

• 8 Month Old Deaf Baby's Reaction To Hearing For The First Time! (Length: ‎0:49)
  
  
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  
  
• Deaf vs. deaf culture(s)
  
  
  • Ladd, Paddy. Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2003.
    
    
    • "Paddy Ladd is a Lecturer and MSc co-ordinator at the Centre for Deaf Studies in the University of Bristol. He completed his PhD in Deaf Culture at Bristol University in 1998 and has written, edited and contributed to numerous publications in the field. Both his writings and his Deaf activism have received international recognition, and in 1998 he was awarded the Deaf Lifetime Achievement Award by the Federation of Deaf People, for activities which have extended the possibilities for Deaf communities both in the UK and worldwide." -- author notes
      
      
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• Ouch! -- BBC
  
  
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• video
  • Sound and Fury (2000) --PBS

Girl with Cochlear Implant

• Sound and Fury: Six Years Later -- Josh Aronson

• Through Deaf Eyes (2007) --PBS

 

I. King Jordan made history in 1988
when he became the first deaf president
of Gallaudet University

• About the Film
  
  
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• Ouch! -- BBC
  
  
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• Signs of the Times: Deaf Community Minds Its Language -- Guardian (07 October 2012)