American Sign Language Video: What It Like To Be Deaf

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In the lesson 5 American sign language video "What it like to be Deaf", a man who appears to be deaf starts to sign and says he is going to share his experience of growing up deaf with us. Afterwards, he added that this videos purpose is to educate and spread awareness to the hearing community. Thereafter he comes back on saying that he is here to help people understand deaf people and he was adopted by a family who have help him grow up but never had a real bond with him. Subsequently, he begins to talk about his personal story about growing up deaf, he adds that one day he was watching a movie with his family but he couldn’t hear what was going on, he than noticed that his family was laughing but he didn’t know why so he asked them what did

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