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Deaf kids in Nicaragua created a completely new sign language out of scratch when placed in deaf schools, after rejecting the sign language the teachers attempted to teach. It is now the official sign language of Nicaragua
While Beethoven was going deaf, he composed more music with low notes. This was because he had to put his head close to his piano to feel the vibrations. After going completely deaf, his compositions contained more high notes - because he simply began composing directly from his head.
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The last sonata Beethoven composed has little to do with classical music and more to do with with jazz and boogie-woogie, about a 100 years in advance; and he was completely deaf when he wrote it
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Alexander Graham Bell believed that deafness was something that could eventually be completely eradicated, and was one of the most vocal opponents of ASL.
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After becoming completely deaf, Beethoven used bone conduction hearing to create his symphonies and TIME magazine has an article on it dating back to August 21, 1933
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By the time Beethoven wrote his 9th symphony, his most iconic, he was already completely deaf
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Stephen Colbert is completely deaf in his right ear.
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Edison invented the phonogram despite being almost completely deaf. He would often clamp his teeth on his piano to feel the vibrations as it was played.
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Primarily though, most completely deaf people think in sign language. Similar to how an “inner voice” of a hearing person is experienced in one's own voice, a completely deaf person sees or, more aptly, feels themselves signing in their head as they “talk” in their head.
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Allais wrote the earliest known example of a completely silent musical composition. His Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man of 1897 consists of twenty-four blank measures.
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Primarily though, most completely deaf people think in sign language. Similar to how an “inner voice” of a hearing person is experienced in one's own voice, a completelydeaf person sees or, more aptly, feels themselves signing in their head as they “talk” in their heads
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Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven from Stranger Things) Was born partly deaf in one ear, and is almost completely deaf in that ear now.
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As a child Thomas Edison had an ear infection that would leave him nearly completely deaf for the rest of his life. He would later go on to invent the record player
Stephen Colbert is completely deaf in his right ear. - source
