What! This is so freaking cool!
The PBS Newshour ran this piece yesterday about a Deaf school with a championship football team, and they interviewed someone who says that Deaf people have better peripheral vision than hearing people. I was a guinea pig for that experiment! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
In 2021, the football team at the California School for the Deaf made it to the state championship but suffered a disappointing loss. In 2022 and 2023, they made it back and won. A new book chronicles...
Yes! One point they made is that deafness is not really a disability in an all-deaf environment, something I experienced firsthand when I worked in the deaf students' dining hall at NTSD, where everyone but me could communicate by signing in the noisy dishwashing area.