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ABC Family’s ‘Switched at Birth’ ASL Episode Recalls Gallaudet Protest

Sound of Silence

Almost 25 years to the day after the student protest at Gallaudet University began in 1988, ABC Family’s ‘Switched at Birth’ features a storyline about a deaf student uprising in an episode, airing March 4, that’s told almost entirely in American Sign Language.

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