Featured in this show are highlights of the Opening Gala performance at Deaf Way in 1989. Deaf performers from the United States, Soviet Union, France, and Japan are spotlighted.
Up Next in Season 1
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Deaf Mosaic 507
Stories include Dr. Robert Davila, the highest ranking deaf man in the federal government; the American Postal Workers Union; FANTASTIC, a television program for deaf children; Matthew Moore of DEAF LIFE magazine; and a history of the controversy between manual and oral education.
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Deaf Mosaic 508
This episode provides a look at various residential schools including the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, the Lexington School for the Deaf in New York, and the Illinois School for the Deaf. Also included are stories on the life of Laurent Clerc and The Bicultural Center in Riverdale, M...
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Deaf Mosaic 509
Members of the community memorialize people with AIDS as part of the national AIDS quilt project; author/physician Oliver Sacks examines the role of language in Deaf identity and culture in his book 'Seeing Voices'; the Canadian community protests against certain educational 'reforms'; and 'Mosai...
