Children Quote by Lauren Ridloff

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those…

— Helen Keller

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language…

— Shoshannah Stern

There are many issues within the deaf community but, for me, none more important than access to education for deaf children.

— Rachel Shenton

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

— Katie Leclerc

If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute…

— Kassie DePaiva

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

— Marlee Matlin

I don't know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can't…

— Millicent Simmonds

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some…

— Rachel Shenton

Culturally deaf people don't want to be fixed. They don't feel impaired. They feel complete.

— Paul Raci

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

— Richard Masur

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write…

— Jack Jason

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that…

— Marlee Matlin