Word: deafness
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...autism "connection." It is unfortunate that precious time, energy and money have been wasted on such a warped theory. I am autistic myself, and I am very certain there is more to the autism epidemic than genetics, TV or even the weather. The medical community unfortunately is deaf to commentary from those with autism and gives too much credence to so-called studies like the one from Cornell University. Jagannath Chatterjee Orissa, India...
...practice of managing “lunacy” toward the end of the Middle Ages, creating asylums for those whose behavior was deemed abnormal. With little scientific understanding of mental illness, “lunatic” was a broadly defined label that too frequently included the deaf, the mute, and the intellectually slow. “Treatment” meant squalid living conditions and physical abuse. Beginning in the 18th century, some steps were taken to make treatment of the mentally ill more “humane,” but well into the 20th century these people...
...heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft this song in a way that the person who's tone-deaf and can't clap on two and four can sing it?" says the songwriter. "I hope that when someone hears a CD of mine, they pick up their guitar and say, 'O.K., I can do that.'" Which is not the way people react to, say, Handel's Messiah...
...handle it very well.”HISTORICAL FICTIONDespite this hard work to capture Beethoven’s essence, Harris admits that the film made a number of fictional leaps in its representation of his life.For example, the script tinkered with the composer’s deafness. “Beethoven had these conversation books where he would converse with people in writing and you can’t make a film like that,” Harris says. “You have to make the conceit that he reads lips.”But lip-reading...
Mention the Boston Police Department and the entire campus will erupt in outrage. Talk about how a last-minute call at Princeton sullied the Crimson’s chances at an Ivy title and you fall on deaf ears...