Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Filmmaker's moving story of parents' journey into the hearing world


HOLLYWOOD — In fall 2004, documentary filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky was caught off guard when her 65-year-old parents, both profoundly deaf since birth, announced that they had made a life-altering decision: They both would undergo cochlear implants. In three weeks.

In the film, Paul remembers his mother pushing him in his stroller weeping, because, as he puts it, "I would never speak ... I would never have a life." She needn't have worried; he became a college professor and engineer who helped invent a technology that would help deaf people communicate by phone. read more

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