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deaf person

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a person with a severe auditory impairment

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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Frank Herbert

At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access. I. King Jordan

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. Madeleine L'Engle

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome. Christopher Moore (author)

When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance. Ibo Proverb

Thunder cannot make a deaf person hear. African Proverb

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