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...begin the process of education without hopeless handicaps. In one particularly dramatic case, a 4½-year-old boy, already given to wild behavior, was adjudged retarded; not until he was referred by an alert day-care teacher to a pediatrician was he found to be almost totally deaf. Enrolled in a special school, he was discovered, in time, to be of near-genius intelligence...
...governor and a front-running candidate in any future presidential election. Returning from a trip abroad, Lacerda had two cordial meetings with Castello Branco, then turned around and stormed that "a revolution that hides from the people is no longer a revolution but a coup." His invective fell on deaf ears; many of Lacerda's own U.D.N. Party members in Congress rebelled and joined other Senators and Deputies in a majority approval of the bill...
Johnson also had the unusual experience of making a speech that his audience did not hear. At a centennial banquet at Gallaudet College in Washington, the only U.S. college for the deaf, Johnson spoke slowly, had his words translated into sign language by the college's dean of women, Elizabeth Benson...
...Jeffrey Liebman of Evanston, Ill. got a four-minute standing ovation when the President's telegram was read to a student assembly. He heard not a clap of it, having been deaf since birth. He attends Evanston's college-sized Township High, reads lips so fluently that some classmates are unaware of his deafness. Hugely versatile, Jeffrey was a state winner in the Science Talent Search for his experiment on fast evaporation, won a Carnegie Tech creative-writing prize for an essay on Salinger and Kafka, a national prize for a one-act play, and a letter...
...John Lennon," she says, probably without blinking, although with her screen of hair it is hard to tell. John Lennon, of course, is the married Beatle, and author of such poems as "On Safairy with Whide Hunter" and "Deaf Ted, Danoota...