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Transcription: [00:35:03]
{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
few Doctor's who are deaf. They're saying dentists, computer programmers, mathematicians, scientists. So on and so forth.

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Actors, she's saying actors. It's not just limited to printing.

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Preachers, yes we have preachers and priests who are deaf. Really you keep naming them, the list is very long.

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Er maybe have one or two more questions before we close here.

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{SPEAKER name="Libby Hathaway/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
My mother is deaf so she already could sign, my father was hearing. He knew a little bit of signs, not very skilled and uh.

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I didn't have fluent communication with my father but he showed his love in many other ways. Took me fishing, we'd sit in silence and he'd say no, no, no, do it this way and he'd show me.

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Took me hunting. Father would sit and he'd listen and he'd blow on his quack horn, his whistle. He'd tell me yep, yeah here comes one now. And I'd look, look and where, where, and then I'd see the ducks all in a line coming over.

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Many other ways he showed his concern, he didn't have to know sign language to show his love.

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{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
I'd like to share with you that all four here have deaf parents except for Jan. However I am the son hearing parents and communication with my parents was through speech but I felt it was somewhat limited with my parents until I grew up.

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As, I grew up as an oralist in an oral school in the Baltimore area.

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Then I went to Gallaudet College and learned sign language.

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I felt free to communicate with deaf people, or anyone who knows sign language.