deaf culture

A comic, a drummer, an actor and a singer, who are all well-known entertainers in the deaf community, are followed as they attempt to cross over to mainstream audiences. These uniquely talented entertainers overcome great challenges to celebrate success.

Creating a graffiti mural to cover up a nasty slur about her best friend written on the back of their school for the deaf, Julia is expelled and sent to a mainstream school where she is treated like an outcast while continuing to paint graffiti before a mysterious fellow artist starts adding creative touches to her work.

Discusses the education and history of the deaf in the nineteenth century.

Tracks the changes in education and the social world of deaf people; covers the attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America, the evolution of communication and language and increasing influence of education; and relates the way in which deafness has been increasingly humanized, rather than medicalized or pathologized.