NEW YORK (AP) — When Troy Kotsur made history as the first Deaf male actor win an Oscar at the 2022 Academy Awards, he was thinking about his father. Ninety percent of Deaf children are born to hearing parents but the wide majority of those parents never learn American Sign Language. The elder Kotsur wasn’t one of them. “Most deaf kids have hearing parents who unfortunately do not know sign language at all,” says Kotsur. “CODA,” Kotsur thinks, has impacted Hollywood.

Source: The Star June 09, 2023 20:30 UTC