Admiration Quote by Andrew Solomon

The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate…

— Harlan Lane

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the…

— Edward Miner Gallaudet

“Do deaf schizophrenics hear voices in sign language?”

— Nick James

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of…

— Andrew Solomon

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early…

— Helen Keller

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

— Stephen King

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that…

— Stephanie Beacham

They thought I was deaf when I was a kid because I was always totally off in my own little world.

— Lynne Ramsay

So, for people who aren't aware: the biggest obstacle to having hearing loss is not having access to language. And there are many Deaf…

— Lauren Ridloff

“By the age of two, hearing children perceived their parents’ deafness well enough to know automatically that they must use gestures with their parents…

— Lou Ann Walker

“Being deaf is not a weakness or it shouldn’t be seen as one and that’s what I wanted to get across that day. It’s…

— Melyssa Winchester

Growing up, I didn't know that there were other deaf people out there. I thought I was the only one.

— Lauren Ridloff