SILENT WORLD, MUFFLED WORLD

Duration: 28 min

Year Published: 1966

Creator: National Medical Audiovisual Center (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Discusses the difficulties of speech, education, and normal living for the deaf. Animation explains the physiology of the ear, the mechanics of the hearing process, and the cause of hearing impairment. Shows the progress being made in the techniques of corrective ear surgery and in the methods of education and rehabilitation of deaf persons.