Beyond silence

Duration: 17 min

Year Published: 1960

Creator: United States Information Agency

Color: B&W

Sound: Optical sound

Description: The story of Gallaudet College in Washington D.C., where the deaf are trained to prepare themselves for the hearing world. Follows a new student from class to class and shows how the deaf are simultaneously taught lip-reading and sign language in the course of enrollment in a regular four year college curriculum leading to a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. Explains that hearing students from other countries receive instruction at the Gallaudet Graduate School in the art of teaching the deaf.