Word: deafness
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...such attentive use in the recent revival of "The Real Thing") loves the play of ideas, loves the possibility for constructive social change, loves his wife and children more. The discovery of an infidelity wounds him like the news of a Tsarist outrage; the shipwreck of his deaf child collapses upon him like the failed revolutions...
When high school student Ryan Patterson, 18, saw a deaf woman trying to order food at a Burger King, he had a eureka moment: Why not create a device that translates sign language into text? Armed with that idea and a leather golf glove, Patterson created a device that senses its wearer's hand movements and transmits them wirelessly to a tiny handheld monitor, where they appear as words. The device won Patterson a top prize at the Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition. INVENTOR Ryan Patterson AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.siemens-foundation.org...
...Rimbawa saw who placed the explosives inside his pub that night, he isn't telling. The bomb has made sure of that. Apart from burns that cover almost half his spindly frame, Rimbawa's proximity to the blast has left him profoundly and perhaps permanently deaf. Worse, his mind is so scrambled, so traumatized, by what he witnessed that he has refused to speak to his family and has been unable to help the police. His mother, Griya, hopes the cleansing ceremony will rid her son of the horrors in his head. "It is our only chance to save...
...Keller, Class of 1904, and her teacher Annie Sullivan, Sorensen hopes that the play will be well recieved and “will raise consciousness about the blind.” After searching for years for a way to help their daughter who, due to illness, became blind and deaf as an infant, Helen’s parents hire a young governess, Annie. Several fierce battles follow: between Annie and the spoiled Helen and between Annie and the Kellers. Essentially a story about love and its many consequences, the play explores Mrs. Keller’s excessive love and Annie?...
...hurt them where they’ll notice—in recruiting, and presumably, on the field—may seem like a misguided scheme (indeed, it was concocted by prominent attorney Johnnie Cochran, not the most rational guy in the world), but I think it may get deaf university administrations to pay attention...