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INDIA · 1954
Thursday’s Children
Lindsay Anderson
Synopsis
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and cou
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deaf education · speech therapy · hearing impairment · child development · special education
