(c) Ensuring that the education of persons, and in particular children, who are blind, deaf or deafblind, is delivered in the most appropriate languages and modes and means of communication for the individual, and in environments which maximize academic and social development.

Deaf and partially deaf

The silence is deafening.

Corporación Ciudadanía Real de Sordos de Chile

Someone told me that this boy cannot hear.

Always deaf ? What does it mean? I hear perfectly.

Are you deaf?

That means he wasn't deaf. He was pretending to be. That's the truth!

He's dumb.

Are you deaf?

Are you deaf?

Have not you heard?

Deaf and dumb.

I'm not deaf.

What, are you deaf?

What the devil are you? He said you were deaf and dumb.

Walking, are you deaf?

He's not that deaf.

Is Uncle deaf?

I didn't know you were deaf.

Are they deaf?

Go round!

You deaf or somethin'?

Don't you like to go out anymore?

I'm tonedeaf.

I ain't deaf, sonny.

Are you deaf now too?

Is your mum a bit deaf, then?

Silly of me. He's deaf.

Community, social and personal services

I understand she's deaf and dumb.

My husband's a little deaf.

How silly to write a song for a deaf old man.

Was he born deaf?

Milli, don't act dumb!

At the time, the community was a mostly white, working class neighborhood.

In a meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, it was suggested that Finland, along with other Nordic countries and in cooperation with the World Federation of the Deaf, could lend financial, technical and technological support to assist other regions in the formulation and development of policies, programmes and services for deaf persons.

Both are deaf mutes, mentally deficient and illiterate.

(b) Persons with disabilities have access to a range of in home, residential and other community support services, including personal assistance necessary to support living and inclusion in the community, and to prevent isolation or segregation from the community

(b) Facilitating the learning of sign language and the promotion of the linguistic identity of the deaf community

We just we go like that, and we imagine that that's what deafness is about.

We'll have to do it a bit louder, you know she's deaf.

You are breaking my eardrums. Enough.

You lost your tongue or deaf?

She is deaf and he's toothless.