Sentence examples for more deaf from inspiring English sources

We would like to see more of this creativity and determination in deaf characters, and more deaf characters portrayed in mainstream literature, with deafness not being the leading theme".

In the worst years, meningitis has killed more than 25,000 people and left thousands more deaf or retarded.

In addition it's been particularly slow on the uptake with digital and social media, making it less accessible to younger audiences, and more deaf to their desires.

That is the situation of the quarter-million or more deaf people in North America whose primary language is American Sign Language.

There was a time when your only choice would be whether to wear a hearing aid or not, but nowadays more and more deaf people are choosing to have a cochlear implant.

More and more deaf people now have them, and they have become more accepted in the deaf community (here is a fantastic blog charting the jump from hearing aids to cochlear implants).

The first fruit of her efforts has been modest: she now leads a regular series of deaf- and hard-of-hearing-oriented tours at the New York Public Library's flagship building on Fifth Avenue, which has begun to offer more deaf-oriented events and to hire interpreters for other events.

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These children, known as CODAs ("Children Of Deaf Adults") are often more culturally deaf than deaf children, the majority of whom are born to hearing parents.

This makes the "winning takes care of everything" sentiment even more tone deaf.

As online video becomes ever more popular, deaf viewers face the prospect of a partly inaccessible Internet.