Over the past five or six years, I've been making an effort to watch the Academy Award-nominated short films and documentaries from throughout the decades.* I've now added to that number 1987's "Language Says It All".
"CODA"'s recent Best Picture win has hopefully drawn attention to the issue of deafness. Co-star Troy Kotsur became the first deaf man to win an acting Oscar, while co-star Marlee Matlin had won an Oscar years earlier. This documentary looks at deaf children, their caregivers, and how their parents cope with the children's disability. Since the documentary's now thirty-five years old, it would be interesting to see how the children (now adults) have dealt with things since the documentary got made. In the meantime, the documentary is available on the website of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Wikipedia has the link).
Watch for an appearance by Chevy Chase and Jeff Goldblum at the end; I don't know who the women are.
*I've also been watching a number of Academy Award-nominated features that I'd never seen before.
