Curated Video
Hearing loss
Discover how exposure to high-volume sounds can damage hearing. Physical processes - Sound - Dangers of sound Learning Points High volume sounds can damage ears and cause hearing loss. Sound levels are measured in decibels. Ear damage...
Wonderscape
Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb: Beyond the Myth
Unravel the true history behind the invention of the light bulb, a journey that goes far beyond Thomas Edison. Discover the early experiments with electricity by Ebenezer Kinnersley and Alessandro Volta's creation of an early battery....
Wonderscape
Thomas Edison: Myths and Reality
Discover the true story of Thomas Edison, beyond the myths of the lone genius. Learn about Edison's brief formal education, his self-driven learning, and the crucial role of his mother, a teacher. Examine the myth of his minimal sleep...
Curated Video
Why Sign Language Was Banned in America
Sign Languages are just as linguistically valid and vibrant as spoken languages, and beneficial to learn for Deaf and hearing people. So why for decades was it illegal to teach them in American schools?
Curated Video
Deaf Awareness Week
Happy Deaf Awareness Week! Yes, you heard that right. There is a full week dedicated to promoting and celebrating those who are Deaf and hard of hearing, their language and culture. This is celebrated by special gatherings like Silent...
Curated Video
Hearing but Deaf
Some people who are deaf use assistive technology such as hearing aids or cochlear implants to help them hear. Others feel that using assistive technology impacts a deaf person’s identity. One teenager who was born deaf has had cochlear...
Music Matters
Name the Composer Quiz! #20 Do you know your classical composers
How well do you know your classical composers? Find out with our name the composer quiz! We present ten facts about a random composer, see if you can guess the correct answer by the end of the video.
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - Outbreak - Curbing the Tide of Meningitis
In March 2007, as a meningitis epidemic was raging in Burkina Faso, we filmed a poignant and revealing account of the devastating impact meningitis epidemics have on individuals, families, and communities. Meningitis is a deadly...
Next Animation Studio
Tiny 'earless' Gardiner's frog listens with its mouth, surprises scientists
cientists have discovered that the tiny Gardiner's frog - long assumed to be deaf - is actually able to hear using its mouth. Gardiner's frogs are found in the rainforests of the Seychelles, a series of 115 small islands in the Indian...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: Beethoven's 250th Birthday
Overview of the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring examples played by Brant Taylor, a cellist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Press Association
Girl's parents 'delighted' as she is first in the world to receive new gene therapy for deafness
The parents of an 18-month-old girl who can hear following groundbreaking gene therapy for deafness have said they are delighted with her progress.
Jo Sandy, a 33-year-old secondary school geography teacher, and her husband James, 33,...
Getty Images
Close-up handheld shot of a caucasian woman doing sign language
Close-up handheld shot of a caucasian woman doing sign language
Hearst Metrotone News
A young Helen Keller poses for a photograph; Helen Keller poses with her teacher Anne Sullivan; Helen Keller poses with inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
A young Helen Keller poses for a photograph; Helen Keller poses with her teacher Anne Sullivan; Helen Keller poses with inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1920s footage of Thomas Edison with visitors at his West Orange laboratory
Thomas Edison seated at roll-top desk with cubbyholes jammed with papers; a visitor arrives, bows, and they shake hands, then he leans to speak into in Edison's ear / Jumpy footage of Edison posing and giving the man a document / Edison...
Hearst Metrotone News
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru greets and sits down with Helen Keller and her interpreter Polly Thomson who uses sign language with her.
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru greets and sits down with Helen Keller and her interpreter Polly Thomson who uses sign language with her.
Hearst Metrotone News
Helen Keller holds her diploma wearing a cap and gown upon her graduation in 1904.
Helen Keller holds her diploma wearing a cap and gown upon her graduation in 1904.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Evangelical Church of the Deaf choir in Toronto signs doxology and hymn, 1954
Title: "Silent Harmony…Deaf Mute Choir Gives Hymn Rare Beauty" superimposed over choir singing in sign language / MS people wearing coats enter Evangelical Church of the Deaf / MS Pastor Willis Etheridge greets congregation as they go...
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'The Family Stone' Premiere
Ty Giordano on his character and how he feels about being a deaf actor at the 'The Family Stone' Premiere at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, California on December 6, 2005. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)
British Movietone
WOMEN IN THE NEWS
From Victoria, Australia a black-board lesson on golf for pupils at a school for deaf children. This sort of lesson helps to enlarge the children's vocabulary. ® A Beauty Contest at Heron Island, off Queensland, to find Miss Underwater....
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Aquiles el pronosticador oficial del Mundial 2018
La Copa del Mundo de Rusia ya tiene su propio pronosticador oficial: se llama Aquiles y es un gato blanco y sordo que vive en el Museo del Hermitage de San Petersburgo
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President Eisenhower opens National Hearing Week in Washington, DC
3-year old Donna Marie, Poster Girl of the American Hearing Society's 1955 National Hearing Week, is held by her mother, Mrs. Fred Crescenzi and gives flowers to President Eisenhower.