11.   The findings may shed light on unusual brain patterns observed in people who are born deaf or blind, he added.

12.   The plot twist that calls for his only son to be born deaf is almost too much to ask the film to bear.

13.   Born deaf in both ears, the girl gained her hearing at age four after her mother prayed to Drexel.

14.   He said that on delivering Xin Ying, her mother Tan May Chin had contracted German measles, which resulted in her being born deaf.

15.   Japanese researchers studied a man who was born deaf and uses sign language.