• Deaf-mute is a term which was used historically to identify a person who was either deaf and used sign language or both deaf and could not speak. The term...
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    Healing the deaf mute of Decapolis is one of the miracles of Jesus recorded in chapter 7 of the Gospel of Mark. Its narration offers many parallels with...
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  • The Deaf Mute is a 1913 American short war drama black and white film directed by Allen Ramsey, written by Rupert Hughes and produced by Thomas A. Edison...
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  • television on November 23, 1997. It concerns Sammy, a man who pretends to be deaf and mute, when in reality he can hear and speak perfectly well. The movie stars...
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    In human development, muteness or mutism (from Latin mutus 'silent') is defined as an absence of speech, with or without an ability to hear the speech...
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  • Boy Kills World (category Films about deaf people)
    around a campaign of vengeance enacted by a martial arts expert, rendered deaf-mute by an attack that killed his entire family, whose thoughts are presented...
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    000 copies in the United States alone. It explains methods to instruct deaf-mutes (as they were then known) to articulate words and read other people's...
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  • established for deaf-mutes, but deaf-mutes were not allowed to be witnesses in the courts. c. 364 B.C.: Aristotle asserted that the "Deaf are born incapable...
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  • is a list of schools for the deaf, organized by country. Humble Hearts School Kisii School for the Deaf Tabora Deaf-Mute Institute Agostino Vicini's Special...
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  • co-written by Park Chan-wook. The film stars Shin Ha-kyun as Ryu, a young, deaf-mute factory worker trying to earn enough money for his sister's kidney transplant...
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    Amarkalam (1999). Ajith's dual portrayal of twin brothers—where one is deaf-mute—in S. J. Suryah's Vaali (1999) won him his first Filmfare Award for Best...
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  • the countryside who try to fornicate with a young gardener posing as a deaf-mute after he escapes from being punished by his lord for adultery with the...
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    eastern coast of the Sea of Galilee". Here he comes across a man who is deaf and mute. He touches his ears and touches his tongue with his own spittle and...
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  • September 2024 on ZEE5. Set in New Delhi, India, in 1993, the film follows a deaf-mute young man (Ishwak Singh) who is accused of being a foreign spy. A sign...
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  • "Considering the incontestable superiority of speech over signs in restoring the deaf-mute to society, and in giving him a more perfect knowledge of language,/Declares...
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    Deaf (ASD), originally The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf, is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in...
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  • Hush (2016 film) (category Films about deaf people)
    and starring Siegel, was released on Netflix on September 24, 2021. Deaf-mute horror author Maddie Young lost her abilities to hear and speak after...
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    commercial failures. Ajith's dual portrayal of twin brothers—where one is deaf-mute—in S. J. Suryah's Vaalee (1999) won him his first Filmfare Award for Best...
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  • Bangkok Dangerous (1999 film) (category Films about deaf people)
    and directed by the Pang Brothers. Stylishly edited, the story of a deaf and mute hitman was the debut film for the twin-brother team of filmmakers. A...
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  • prerevolutionary deaf marginalization. An article published in 1984 notes the medical use of "GN—UO," a prerevolutionary term meaning "Deaf-mute—Mentally Retarded...
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  • Darjeeling and Kolkata of the 1970s, the film focuses on Barfi (Kapoor), a deaf-mute young man based in Darjeeling, and his relationships with two girls, the...
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  • to be deaf. In this way, Bernardo is able to spy for Diego without arousing suspicion. This characterization, an innovation over the deaf-mute Bernardo...
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  • language Deaf-mute Diagnosis of hearing loss Hearing loss History of sign language List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing Models of deafness World...
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    in Hindi and Punjabi language films. Singh is known for her role as a deaf-mute in the 1997 film Judaai. Later on, she got famous for her negative portrayal...
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  • promises to give her the information if Mizu agrees to mercy kill Kinuyo, a deaf-mute girl who was in Kaji's care before being forcibly taken by the local "thousand-claws"...
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    Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (category Deaf culture in the United States)
    of Deaf-Mute Instruction in America (PDF). New York: H. Holt and Co. Gallaudet, Edward Miner. Letter to J.H. McFarlane (undated). Published in Deaf-Mutes'...
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  • films that feature the deaf and hard of hearing. The Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series wrote, "The world of the deaf has received little attention...
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    1864 became the National Deaf-Mute College. Now called Gallaudet University, it is still the only liberal arts university for deaf people in the world. International...
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  • Litvinova's novel To Own and Belong. The film set in a fictional underworld of deaf-mute people in Moscow. The film was entered into the 48th Berlin International...
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  • Dhruv Sharma (category Mute people)
    which won the Guinness Book of World Record for the first film to have a deaf-mute person in the lead role. The film received mixed reviews but Dhruv's performance...
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