This amazing and hilarious short film, written and directed by James Banks, turns deaf awareness training on its head, teaching us all how to deal with people who were unlucky enough to be born ‘sound sensitive.’ It’s one of my all time favourites, and amazingly, it’s on YouTube for all to see. Here it is…
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Kate
August 10, 2012
Great video.
Reminds me of the time we discussed “Hearing Awareness” in my BSL group (we’re about half and half Deaf/Hearing). There’s stuff that you forget, even when you’re around them all the time. Respect cuts both ways, I guess.