Joseph Valente talks about his experiences as a deaf kid wanting to become a super hero in the video below.  His talk is titled
 Hearing the Unheard and was shot at a TEDx program at Penn State last month. He's  Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education. Valente is author of 
d/Deaf and d/Dumb: A Portrait of a Deaf Kid as a Young Superhero. There is captioning.