Word: deafness
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...saved most of Cambridge from financial disaster. A number of activist groups--most notably the Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods--have opposed Healy for what they perceive to be his selective agenda. They say that Healy is not equally accessible to all members of the community, and is especially deaf to groups defending the environment and aesthetic concerns of the city...
...Nelson Yaun-Sheng Kiang, a professor of physiology at the Harvard Medical School and the head of the program, said he hopes the program will address medical issues ranging from learning disorders to new artificial hearing mechanisms for the deaf...
Hannah V. Boyle '96, who did not know anysigns, said the program gave her "an insideperspective into the world of the deaf by beingforced to find alternative methods ofcommunication...
Miller said through an interpreter that she thought the workshop was great. She said she was surprised that so many people showed up to learn about the problems facing deaf people...
Miller, who was born hearing but became deaf at the age of 15 months from spinal meningitis, swam on the 1992 U.S Deaf Olympic Team...