Normally an orchestra might go into a deaf school, or work with a group of deaf children.
But the nations of the world, he said, turned a deaf ear and a blind eye.
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My rescuers also saved others: a deaf mute, a Russian widow with children, and other Jews.
In the past, some felt that executives were turning a deaf ear and a loud mouth to employees and shareholders.
"There is a centre for the deaf, a care home and homes where vulnerable people live around here, " Mr Khadam said.
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Megan helped found a deaf-services hotline, called Tripod, and a Montessori school that taught deaf and hearing students together.
In the case of Megan and Michael, being the parents of a deaf child meant travelling into a foreign country.
The director recently talked about working with a deaf actor, learning from a blind father and sharing the stage with a three-legged dog.
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Somerset County Council has lost two specialist teachers of the deaf and a part-time support worker through redundancy.
I, however, was on the other side of the room and being deaf as a stump, was having a difficult time hearing the translation.
Even before the days of Skype, a deaf person had the means to complete a two-way call.
"If they don't have access to learning a sign language that's already in existence, then a community of deaf people will find a way to communicate, " said Leanne Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Democrats should turn a deaf ear to his pleas for mercy on his record as a businessman and tax shelterer.
Factory management turned a deaf ear to complaints about these conflicts and took no corrective measures, resulting in a work stoppage by quality control inspectors.
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Tuesday's episode, which coincides with Learn To Sign Week, features a storyline using deaf characters - both of whom are played by deaf actors - together with a hearing actor who uses British Sign Language.
He and Samantha have a daughter who is deaf and is due for a cochlear implant.
But Seth's own passion for music--which his characters, including a deaf musician, portray so well--makes the story compelling.
As a deaf person, she looked for the candidates' disability plans and could find one only for Democrats.
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Mackenzie is partially deaf, wears a hearing aid and communicates through sign language.
But what if, like Jacob, you are a deaf child with hearing parents?
Silent movies and specifically deaf culture play a key role in the book.
The theater began some 14 years ago when Tal was asked to run a two-month workshop for members of a deaf-blind social club.
When it comes to diagnosing illness, doctors may turn a deaf ear to some of the most critical information: what the patient has to say.
Johnny Belinda (1948), in which she gave an Oscar-winning performance, transforming herself into a deaf mute teen, is often cited as the pinnacle of her career.
Hence, the deaf never get a true sense of the phonemic structure of spoken language: they have no sounds in their heads that can represent the written letters.
What does a deaf person make of "The Silence of the Lambs" without the soundtrack, or, for that matter, what does a colorblind person make of "cheeks like roses"?
Potter was hoping that Cigna archrival Aetna would get most of the negative attention, but in fact Cigna was a major villain, at one point shown denying a cochlear implant to a deaf child.
And Benitez's preparation for the Anfield clash included suspending Albert Riera after the Spaniard, desperate to play in the World Cup, accused his boss of having something "personal" against him and "turning a deaf ear" to players.
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