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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' also has a case with a deaf victim and deaf mom and boyfriend. The girl was comfortable because she was born deaf to a deaf family, but the boy who fathered her baby was from a hearing family and they fought over getting cochlear implants for the baby.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' also has a case with a deaf victim and her deaf mom parents, baby, and boyfriend.boyfriend in "[[Recap/CSINYS03E12 Silent Night]]". The girl was comfortable because she was born deaf to a deaf family, but the boy who fathered her baby was from a hearing family and they fought over getting cochlear implants for the baby.
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* ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'': Teddy Carella, the wife of lead character Steve Carella, is deaf. A recurring villain calls himself "The Deaf Man", although he's just only partially deaf.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Dollicious}}'': The cast includes the Tea Family, a deaf family running a tea shop.
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* ''Film/BoyKillsWorld'': The main character was rendered deaf and mute in the attack that killed his family.
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* ''Film/{{Walker}}'': Walker's fiancée Ellen Martin is deaf.

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* ''Film/{{Walker}}'': ''Film/{{Walker|1987}}'': Walker's fiancée Ellen Martin is deaf.
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* There are a great many ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' fics that depict Present Mic or Bakugou as being hearing impaired due to their respective quirks. “[[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Deaf%20Yamada%20Hizashi%20%7C%20Present%20Mic/works Deaf Yamada Hizashi|Present Mic]]'' and “[[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Deaf%20Bakugou%20Katsuki/works Deaf Bakugou Katsuki]” are both quite large Archive of our Own categories.

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* There are a great many ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' fics that depict Present Mic or Bakugou as being hearing impaired due to their respective quirks. “[[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Deaf%20Yamada%20Hizashi%20%7C%20Present%20Mic/works Deaf Yamada Hizashi|Present Mic]]'' and “[[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Deaf%20Bakugou%20Katsuki/works Deaf Bakugou Katsuki]” Katsuki]]” are both quite large Archive of our Own categories.
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* There are a great many ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' fics that depict Present Mic or Bakugou as being hearing impaired due to their respective quirks. “[[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Deaf%20Yamada%20Hizashi%20%7C%20Present%20Mic/works Deaf Yamada Hizashi|Present Mic]]'' and “[[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Deaf%20Bakugou%20Katsuki/works Deaf Bakugou Katsuki]” are both quite large Archive of our Own categories.
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* ''Manga/ASignOfAffection''

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* ''Manga/ASignOfAffection''''Manga/ASignOfAffection'': The protagonist, Yuki Itose, is born deaf and communicates via sign language, texting and writing.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': As of Season 9, the show has two characters who are on the deaf spectrum: sisters Connie (Creator/LaurenRidloff) and Kelly (Creator/AngelTheory).

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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': As of Season 9, the show has 9 introduces two characters who are on the deaf spectrum: sisters Connie (Creator/LaurenRidloff) and Kelly (Creator/AngelTheory).
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* ''Film/BeyondSilence'': A German film about a young girl who can hear but has deaf parents, and who has ambitions to be a professional clarinet player.
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* ''Film/{{Creed}}'': Adonis' LoveInterest Bianca Taylor suffers from progressive hearing loss.
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* ''Film/{{Creed}}'': ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'': Adonis' LoveInterest Bianca Taylor suffers from progressive hearing loss.
** ''Film/CreedII''''Film/CreedII'': Adonis and Bianca's daughter Amara inherited her mother's hearing loss.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Ikon}}'' is an urban fantasy following a counterfeiter with severe hearing loss.
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* ''Webcomic/RunawayToTheStars'': Gillie is deaf and uses sign language.
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* ''Film/{{Walker}}'': Walker's fiancée Ellen Martin is deaf.
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** ''Series/{{Echo|2024}}'': A spin-off series focusing on Echo.
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* ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld'': Cecil, one of the child protagonists, is hearing impaired. His sister Rebecca uses sign language to talk to him after the Time Keeper takes his hearing aids.
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* ''Webcomic/ThatDeafGuy'' is about a deaf father, his sign language interpreter wife, and their son who is a CODA (hearing Child of a Deaf Adult).
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* ''Literature/TheMermaidOfBlackConch'': Reggie Rain, a major supporting character, is a deaf ten-year-old who befriends Aycayia and teaches her ASL.
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* ''ComicBook/Dollicious'': The cast includes the Tea Family, consisting of four deaf members who run a tea shop, all named after types of tea. Their speech bubbles come out of their hands. Green Tea is the most prominent, being best friends with Bow, and in one story she teaches Gnocchi sign language (which the young toddler is fascinated to discover).

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* ''ComicBook/Dollicious'': ''ComicBook/{{Dollicious}}'': The cast includes the Tea Family, consisting of four deaf members who run a tea shop, all named after types of tea. Their speech bubbles come out of their hands. Green Tea is the most prominent, being best friends with Bow, and in one story she teaches Gnocchi sign language (which the young toddler is fascinated to discover).
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* ''ComicBook/Dollicious'': The cast includes the Tea Family, consisting of four deaf members who run a tea shop, all named after types of tea. Their speech bubbles come out of their hands. Green Tea is the most prominent, being best friends with Bow, and in one story she teaches Gnocchi sign language (which the young toddler is fascinated to discover).
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* ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'': The assistant of Francis Bigger (Creator/FrankieHowerd), Chloe Gibson (Creator/JoanSims), is hard of hearing. Over the course of the film, Mr. Bigger is led to believe he only has a week left to live and so he decides to marry Miss Gibson, even though he has no feelings for her. When it's time for the ceremony, the chaplain who marries them (Creator/PeterJones) is ''also'' hard of hearing, leading to Mr. Bigger struggling to get the two of them to understand himself and each other.

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* ''Film/TheQuiet'': Dot's father was deaf, which led to her ''pretending'' to be deaf to feel closer to him.



* ''Film/TheQuiet'': Dot's father was deaf, which led to her ''pretending'' to be deaf to feel closer to him.
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* ''Literature/TheMakingOfYolandaLaBruja'': The protagonist, Yolanda, is deaf and uses an ocular implant.
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* ''Film/ThereWasALittleGirl'': The protagonist works at a school for deaf children.
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** ''Film/CreedIII''
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* ''Film/TheKnowledge'': Mr Burgess briefly pretends to be deaf while testing trainee taxi drivers, making the point that it is not nice to lose one's temper with people who are hard of hearing, or which there are regrettably many thousands.
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* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': In ''Five go to Smuggler's Top'', the sinister deaf manservant Block.


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* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Played for laughs in "Communication Problems", with the irritable and deaf Mrs Richards.
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* ''Series/Accused2023'': "Ava's Story" focuses entirely on deaf people, with the issue stemming from a deaf baby girl's hearing father wanting to give her a cochlear implant, something which her deaf surrogate mother objects to quite strongly. Her husband and her lawyer are also deaf, while deaf culture/issues aside from this are also discussed heavily.

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