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Deaf nun on a mission to help those losing their hearing
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Some days can feel as long as the 80 years of Sister Cecilia's life.
She sits and watches your face intently as you speak, constantly processing the small expressions to understand the sounds she cannot hear filling the room around her.
Deaf gym junkie's Auslan fitness classes believed to be Australian first
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All around Australia, gym-goers are yelled at by enthusiastic exercise class instructors to go harder and faster.
Blind, deaf 'Hurricane Chef' Nate Quinell teaching others to cook
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Nathan Quinell has been blind and deaf since childhood, but that hasn't stopped the 32-year-old from pursuing his culinary dreams as the 'Hurricane Chef'.
Kate Disher-Quill lost her hearing as a child. Now she's telling stories of the Deaf community in a book, Earshot
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When you are three and the world of sound starts disappearing, your life's narrative is rewritten and the script is not always controlled by you.
Brielle suddenly started going deaf when she was 12. It felt like this
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Subconsciously, Brielle, then 12 years old, knew the things she was starting to forget hinted at something larger.