Deaf Actress Millicent Simmonds 'Wonderstruck'

WATCH [CC] - 'Wonderstruck' (2017) Official Trailer - Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck's Deaf Breakout Star.

HOLLYWOOD -- Wonderstruck is a 2017 American mystery drama film directed by Todd Haynes and based on the 2011 novel Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, who also adapted the novel into a screenplay. The film stars Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Millicent Simmonds.

Plot: The film interlaces two stories set fifty years apart, switching frequently between them. Each tells the story of a child's quest. In 1927, Rose (Simmonds) runs away from her father's New Jersey home to find her mother/idol, the actress Lillian Mayhew (Moore). In 1977, recently orphaned Ben (Fegley) runs away from his Minnesota home in search of his father.



Get to know Deaf actress Millicent Simmonds intimately and learn more about her journey with 'Wonderstruck' the film.

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About Wonderstruck: Based on Brian Selznick’s critically acclaimed novel Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry. Here's the official site Wonderstruck.com.



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'A Quiet Place' (2018) - Sign Language Film

WATCH: A Quiet Place (2018) - Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures.

A family living on a farm hides from a supernatural evil attracted to sound by avoiding making sound and communicating in sign language.



HOLLYWOOD -- A Quiet Place is an upcoming American supernatural horror film directed by John Krasinski. The film stars Krasinski and Emily Blunt. The film is scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures on April 6, 2018.

A Quiet Place is directed by John Krasinski, who also stars in the film. Screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods began writing A Quiet Place in January 2016, and by March of 2017, Paramount Pictures bought their spec script.



Paramount hired actor-director John Krasinski to rewrite the script and to direct the film, which was his third directorial credit and his first for a major studio. Krasinski and his wife, actress Emily Blunt, were also cast in the starring roles in the film.



Production took place in 2017 from May to November. Most filming took place in U.S. state of New York in Dutchess County and Ulster County. Filmmakers spent $18 million in the region, including a purchase of 20 tons of corn which they hired local farmers to grow. Filming also took place on a soundstage in the town of Pawling in Dutchess County as well as on-location in the county's city of Beacon.



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'Dawn of the Deaf' (2016) - Short Horror Film

WATCH: English Subtitles - 'Dawn of the Deaf' (2016) The Short Film.

When a sonic pulse infects the Hearing population, a small group of Deaf people must band together to survive.



LONDON, U.K. -- “Dawn of the Deaf” is a zombie movie where we see the origins of the zombie apocalypse through four separate narratives, all involving Deaf people: A few cruel-hearted pranksters taunt Deaf people on the streets; a Deaf person gives an inspirational speech at a fundraising event as his wife watches; a lesbian couple try to work out their relationship problems; a teenager is being sexually abused by her stepfather.

Rob Savage’s “Dawn of the Deaf” is kind of maddening in that to describe the film is to give away its central premise, which is revealed at the very end. It’s a film that is all set-up. It feels like the first 10 minutes to a feature that has a brilliant idea for a zombie film that we will hopefully see someday. It’s too good an idea to go to waste. Savage remember when he saw the credits and shouting “Dammit!” when it was over. he say all of this as a high compliment, by the way.



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Jessica Marie Flores - Can Deaf People Drive ?

WATCH [CC] - Deaf myths with Jessica Marie Flores: Can Deaf people drive? You would be surprised.

You really think that hearing is needed or even required for driving? Here's a Deaf activist and Youtuber star Jessica Flores share the educational video about Deaf myths, there's a lot of people who believe that Deaf people can't drive simply because we can't hear. This video proves that to be wrong. Myth busted!

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Deaf Baby Girl Hears Mom's Voice For First Time

WATCH: Adorable moment Deaf baby girl cries with joy after hearing her mother's voice for the first time goes viral on social media.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va -- WAVY: Charly was born profoundly Deaf and this is her response to hearing aids. "My baby hears me for the first time and is almost moved to tears!" Charly's her mother Christy Keane said.



It’s a viral video that’s melting hearts around the world -- a Deaf baby from Virginia Beach hearing her Mom’s voice for the first time.

Christy Keane never imagined the reaction that would come from sharing a special family moment on her Instagram page.



She posted it last Thursday, the day two month old Charly got hearing aids. It has now been viewed more than 12 million times.



“That connection in our eyes at that moment I can’t even put into words because its unexplainable” Mom, Christy Keane told WAVY.com. “I know she was feeling what I was feeling in my heart at the same time.”



The Keane home has been full of emotions since Charly was born in August. They had no hint of a hearing loss during Christy’s pregnancy.



“The reason we found out is because Virginia has a great early screening program where, at 24 hours of life, they do a hearing screen on the babies and, she failed.”



Christy had never met a Deaf person until her daughter. Now she’s exploring sign language and googling cochlear implants.



Cochlear implants are different than hearing aids, which amplify sound. Cochlear implants do the work of the damaged inner ear.



Charly will get them closer to her first birthday. That’s the FDA approved age.



For now, the hearing aids are helping her prepare body prepare for the implant.



Charly’s doctor’s with Eastern Virginia Medical School and Children’s Hospital Of The King’s Daughters got the hearing aids for free through the Virginia hearing aid loan bank.



Christy says every morning when she puts them in it is a miracle. The smiles she gets from Charly are just like the first time.



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Deaf and Blind - Being Me Heather

WATCH [CC] - Short film project: Meet the Deaf woman who had to learn how to live again after going blind.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Heather Lawson is Deaf and Blind. She's been through periods of extreme loneliness and isolation, but by becoming independent through orientation and mobility training has helped her to be heard in a world she once felt she wasn’t part of. Here's the video with closed captions.

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Heather Lawson was born Deaf. She grew up in Melbourne with the impairment and coped well with the reality of relying on her sight to be able to socialise and communicate.



"I am Deaf-Blind. But I was born Deaf. Then I grew up deaf. I coped with that well. I had vision. Later on when I was a teenager around 13-14, I slowly lost my sight and I had tunnel vision," she said.



"When I was deaf, I had vision, so I could socialise. I was a really happy girl, involved in activities. I could see other people's signing.



"As I lost my sight it impacted on my life. I was frightened. I felt alone. Because at that time, I didn't have any skills. I had to learn everything again."



But then she also lost her sight, to the point of having tunnel vision, leaving her "frightened" and "alone".



Heather told Channel 10's The Project the loss of another crucial sense meant she had lost the skills she relied on to live and was forced to learn how to function again.



She now relies on a language known as Tactile Auslan -- a system of communication where a Deaf-Blind individual places their hands over the hands of an interpreter as they use sign language, in order to be able to feel the movements and read what they're saying.



She told The Project this unique form of communication has become the way she now lives her life and manages to maintain a 30-year friendship with another Deaf-Blind person, Michelle Stephens.



Unlike Heather, Michelle grew up with minimal sight due to a premature birth and lost her hearing during her 30s as a result of childhood ear infections.



She was an early recipient of a cochlear implant and when her remaining hearing faded, she too had to learn the skills of life once again -- including her pet hobby in playing the piano.



"At first it was really devastating. I naturally thought that I would never, ever be able to play the piano again," she said.



Michelle also said her friendship with Heather grew around their training to re-learn communication techniques. Now they support each other through the good and bad days they experience using new technologies such as Braille display text and email.



"We became friends and we used to catch up and do training together and I used to go to her house a few times. We do have good and bad days but we support each other," she said.



"Heather and I work very closely together. For instance, we're always texting each other about something."



Both Heather and Michelle were also the creators of an immersive performance that was featured in the Sydney Festival in January called Imagined Touch. The event required attendees to wear goggles and headphones that restricted light and sound in order to experience life as a Deaf-Blind individual.



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