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A Gallaudet University administrator and scholar who wrote and edited books about deaf people during the Holocaust and the portrayal of deaf people on-screen, has died of cancer. John Schuchman was 79 years old. A CODA, Dr. Schuchman's first language was ASL. He wrote
Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry as well as
Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe.
Read more about him from the Gallaudet website
here and from the Washington Post
here. During his 34 years at Gallaudet, he served as a dean, vice president of academic affairs and provost.
