jun 15, 2013 - Switched at Birth airs an entire episode using only ASL with captions for the audience unfamiliar with sign language. This is a “first” for network television and draws a record-breaking audience. The episode centers around a protest inspired by the historic 1988 “Deaf President Now” protest at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. in which students, alumni and staff barricaded and occupied the campus until their demand for a deaf university president was heard and met.
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