Hear a Better World: Gateway Resources

Audiences everywhere fell in love with Marlee Matlin as the deaf student-turned-custodian in Children of a Lesser God, a role for which she became the youngest woman ever to win a Best Actress Oscar. Since then, she has become an inspirational force of nature - as a mother, activist and role model - in addition to playing memorable roles on popular television shows, such as Seinfeld, The West Wingand The L Word, and competing on Dancing with the Stars.Now, in I'll Scream Later, Marlee shares the story of her life. Marlee takes readers on a journey of her life, from the frightening loss of her hearing at eighteen months old to the highs and lows of Hollywood, her battles with addiction, and the unexpected challenges of being thrust into the spotlight as an emissary for the deaf community. She candidly shares for the first time the troubles of her youth, the passionate and tumultuous two-year relationship with Oscar winner William Hurt that led to a stint in rehab, and her subsequent romances with heartthrobs like Rob Lowe, Richard Dean Anderson, and David E. Kelley. Written with uncompromising honesty and humour, Matlin's story is an unforgettable lesson in having the courage to follow your dreams.

KEVIN FROST DEAF, BLIND CHAMPION, PHILANTHROPIST, TEDX SPEAKER AND MULTI SPORTS ATHLETE
Kevin Frost is a Deaf/Blind 3 time World Champion Canadian speed skater who resides in Ottawa.
He has Usher’s Syndrome, leaving him with a 10% hearing capacity and has 4% vision remaining.
Kevin has a service guide dog, named Lewis for 9 years and had Nemo for 10 years who has retired in September 2022.
During the last 25 years , he has won 16 gold medals and set 9 World records in Blind speed skating. He has also ranked 8th in the World, against able-bodied Master speed skaters. So far, winning 80 medals competing against able-bodied skaters.
In addition to speed skating, he trained with Development Canada in blind rowing, blind track running, tandem cycling and in 2016 he started blind golfing. He has made the Canadian Standards in all sports venues.
He volunteers for missions in 3rd World countries. He has helped 29 deaf children hear again, as well as, get visual aids to many children during the last 20yrs.

RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf. I was my family's ears. Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in a vivid "oral history" format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories.