Sentence examples for deaf persons from inspiring English sources

She went on to raise and train dogs to assist deaf persons, helping to found the agency which coordinates such efforts, Assistance Dogs International.

He was stirred by the publication of Surdus loquens (1692; "The Talking Deaf") by a Swiss physician who had succeeded in teaching deaf persons to speak.

Ponce taught several other deaf persons to speak and write, although details of his methods either were never recorded or have been lost.

Subsequent technological advances led to increasingly sophisticated sensory substitution apparatuses; an example was a mouthpiece filled with electrodes that enabled deaf persons to "hear" with their tongue.

Although he long supported teaching deaf persons through sign language, Sicard turned to the oral method toward the end of his long career.

In deaf persons, auditory areas are at work during the processing of visual and somatosensory data, while in blind persons, the visual areas of the brain are active during the processing of somatosensory information, which relates to touch.

So do not take a deaf person's bluntness personally -- they do not mean to offend.

Deaf Advantage: On a personal level, experiencing life as a Deaf person in a hearing world has taught me self-advocacy and made me stronger.

A blind person can hear the movement, a deaf person can see it.

As a deaf person, this is a common utterance I come across.

"I don't want another deaf person to feel what I felt.