Marlee Matlin, Siân Heder star in ‘CODA’: a film about a child of deaf adults

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 “CODA,” a feature film about a hearing child of deaf parents, won several prizes at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.   The coming-of-age story follows 17-year-old Ruby, played by Emilia Jones, and Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin, who portrays Ruby’s mother.   Ruby’s character is the CODA, or “Child of Deaf Adults,” from the title. She lives …

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Religion gets increasingly accessible to the deaf community

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Everyone should have the right to full access where their spiritual beliefs and needs are concerned. Thankfully, religion is becoming increasingly accessible to the deaf community. From the Vatican to Israel, examples of religion becoming more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing worshipers are coming from around the globe.   The Vatican Recently the …

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Deaf Awareness

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Deaf awareness isn’t that difficult a thing to understand. In a sense, it is about thoughtfulness and understanding. If you can hear perfectly, that’s great, I’m so happy for you, I really am. The only problem I ever have with hearing people is when they assume that everyone else can hear as well as they …

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The raw nerve

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I can’t speak for other writers, but when it comes to sharing anything personal I shy away from it. Now, I know that as a writer everything we write in a sense is personal, it has to be, unless it’s straight facts journalism of course. I mean creative writing in the main. You know we …

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