Word: deafness
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Brooks and Keaton mulled over the character of Theresa Dunn, who teaches devotedly in a school for the deaf by day, and then, as "Terry," prowls for rough sex in the singles bars at night. Terry is frighteningly disconnected from any feeling that lasts longer than the time required for nerve ends to stop tingling. She goads men and feels invulnerable...
...name is Jimmy, and he is a victim of cerebral palsy. Then there is Suzanne, a bright 16-year-old deaf girl filmed as she experiments with test tubes in a chemistry lab and learns how to rappel on a tree in an outdoor class. Suzanne's speech, which sounds to the untrained ear like a record played at the wrong speed, requires dubbing on the screen. And there's Lisa, a severely retarded eight-year-old with multiple handicaps. For her, just learning to eat with a spoon is a major educational triumph...
...Joseph P. Keefe Technical High School in Framingham, 200 of the school's 1,000 students are handicapped. Of these, 140 students-55 of them deaf-are in regular technical classes. Says Robert Leonard, special needs director: 'Our goal is to make sure kids have sufficient skills to make a living, to go out there and take a crack at it like everyone else...
Under Office of Education regulations, the term handicapped includes not only the blind and the deaf, but victims of crippling diseases and of emotional disorders. Naturally, some parents of unhandicapped students worry that the overall quality of education will suffer from this new kind of integration. For their part, many educators fret about the high costs entailed in training teachers to deal with the handicapped. Both the Trotter and Keefe schools, for instance, can provide the handicapped with special aids that many schools in Massachusetts, and elsewhere in the country, cannot afford...
Made in East Germany, this bleak, elegiac tale suggests that lies like Jacob's may be a necessary, if sometimes fatal condition of life. A young ghetto girl can sleep with her lover only by pretending that the lover's roommate is deaf and dumb-then, after the roommate is dead, by pretending that he is still there. Jacob (movingly played by Czechoslovak Actor Vlastimil Brodsky) has no choice but to indulge the illusions of his adopted niece, who is entranced when he slips around a corner and mimics a radio broadcast, complete with an interview with Winston...