Results: The Sound Of Silence
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Tonight is the finale of Season 22 of Dancing With The Stars. No matter who wins tonight, the real story out of this season has to be Nyle DiMarco, the former winner of America's Next Top Model, who is deaf, and does not even hear the music he's dancing perfectly to. Nyle and his professional partner Peta Murgatroyd have astounded the judges and viewers week after week with his ability to interpret the dances in his own unique way. Have you seen the show and are you amazed at this young man's talent?
I have seen the show and am amazed
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255 votes
I have seen the show, and it is quite cool, but hardly amazing
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116 votes
I have seen the show, and don't find it amazing at all
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109 votes
I haven't seen the show, but it sounds amazing
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243 votes
I haven't seen the show/N/A
58%
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1012 votes
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The above video is their freestyle contemporary routine to Disturbed's remake of the Simon and Garfunkel classic 'The Sound Of Silence', which shows how the right combination of music, lyrics and movement can transcend dance. Nyle hopes he can be an inspiration to the deaf community and show them that anything is possible. How many of these other inspiring deaf role models, (some hearing impaired) are you familiar with? Oscar winning actress Marlee Matlin became deaf at 18 months (also was a contestant of Dancing With The Stars)
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525 votes
Helen Keller was born with sight and hearing, but when she was 19 months old, she contracted a terrible illness that left her blind and deaf.
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715 votes
Body builder Shelley Beattie became deaf at age three because of an aspirin overdose
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69 votes
Miss America 1995 Heather Whitestone lost her hearing when she was just 18 months old. She was the first deaf woman to ever win the Miss America title.
15%
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260 votes
MLB player Curtis Pride was born deaf. He is currently the head baseball coach at Gallaudet University.
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74 votes
Swimmer Gertrude Ederle developed deafness after she swam the English Channel in 1926. She also had poor hearing as a young girl after a bout with the measles
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58 votes
Deaf actress Phyllis Frelich won a Tony award for her performance in the play Children of a Lesser God
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68 votes
Deaf actor Sean Berdy has appeared in The Sandlot 2 and Switched at Birth.
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42 votes
Jim Kyte is the first ever deaf player in the NHL, playing for the Winnipeg Jets, Pittsburgh Penguins among others
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49 votes
None of them
46%
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792 votes
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How many of these pioneers in their fields, all who were deaf or severely hearing impaired do you know? Deaf rights leader Laurent Clerc founded the first school for the deaf in 1817.
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62 votes
Ella Mae Lentz is a well known Deaf American author, poet, teacher, and advocate
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67 votes
MLB superstar William "Dummy" Hoy, the first deaf major-league baseball player.
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78 votes
Dr. Jane Fernandes was the first deaf person to be selected President of a hearing university (Guilford College).
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70 votes
Darius McCall, also known as "Prinz-D", is a deaf rapper from Alabama.
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45 votes
Betty G. Miller, a deaf artist whose work truly edifies the struggles and issues in the deaf community.
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46 votes
Thomas Edison suffered severe hearing impairment due to scarlet fever as a child
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391 votes
Ludwig van Beethoven began to lose his hearing when he was 26 years old; at 44, he was almost completely deaf.
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615 votes
None of them
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866 votes
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Are you or do you personally know anyone who is deaf or severely hearing impaired? I am deaf/hearing impaired
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80 votes
I know someone who is deaf/hearing impaired
26%
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454 votes
Perhaps -- not sure
10%
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169 votes
No
33%
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565 votes
Other (please specify)
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7 votes
Not Applicable
28%
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486 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.24% | 3 | |
| I know heather | 0.08% | 1 |
| S | 0.08% | 1 |
| WHAT ????? | 0.08% | 1 |
| my mother's hearing is bad, old age | 0.08% | 1 |
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