Sentence examples for deaf taught from inspiring English sources

He bitterly opposed dependence on sign language and in 1780 published a book attacking the Abbé de l'Epée, whose Parisian school for the deaf taught communication through gestures.

The store hired, trained and coached deaf employees, taught sign language to hearing employees, and opened with nine deaf partners.

In America the share of deaf children taught by sign language has fallen from 55% to 40% in the past decade.

For example, deaf children teach sign language to hearing children.

Deafness, which some ascribed to her Channel swim, plagued her for decades and made her rather reclusive, although she did work with deaf children, teaching them to swim.

"It proved that you can be deaf and teach," he says.

If you are profoundly deaf, then teaching a dog to alert you to the doorbell ringing, a phone going off, or a smoke detector alarm are all useful ideas.

Megan helped found a deaf-services hotline, called Tripod, and a Montessori school that taught deaf and hearing students together.

Hailey has been schooled at Ohio Valley Voices, where deaf children are taught to speak, and is now entering a local elementary school.

The firm's fee-earners, none of whom are deaf, are being taught British Sign Language (BSL) and it is adapting its communication channels.

It might sound like a joke, but Rosa and Lida and their ancestors had, for some generations, taught deaf children to talk.