Stockard Channing narrates this account of American history from the perspective of the deaf, including challenges they've faced in educational settings; technological advances such as teletype machines, closed-captioning and cochlear implants; and a 1988 protest at Gallaudet University (a college for the hearing-impaired) over the selection of its president. Also: comments by actress Marlee Matlin, actor Bernard Bragg and Gallaudet president I. King Jordan.