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Achieving Goals! Career Stories of Individuals Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Phenomenal Professionals (Claudia Gordon, ESQ)

6 minutes 4 seconds

Now Playing As: Captioned (English)

Claudia Gordon became deaf from an unknown illness as a child. Today she is an attorney in Washington, DC. She shares her story of becoming an advocate for people. This is a short segment from the "Achieving Goals! Career Stories of Individuals Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Phenomenal Professionals."

Media Details

Runtime: 6 minutes 4 seconds

Topic: Careers, Deaf Life, Social Science
Subtopic: Deaf - General, Law, Occupations
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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Release Year: 2002
Producer/Distributor: Pepnet-Northeast/NTID
Series: Achieving Goals! Career Stories of Individuals Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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Woman wears scrubs, cap, mask, and surgical gloves and holds a surgical tool. Caption. You think of the extra work she's done to come where she is.

An optometrist uses a phoropter during a child's eye exam. Caption. Seeing children who have auditory problems.

Closeup of child with mouth wide open for a medical exam, eyes looking down their nose at a person shining a light in their mouth. Caption. I would like to consider myself as a caring person.

A person holding a dog on a leash while someone in a lab coat examines the dog. The dog's ears are back, and the dog looks nervous. Caption: I pay attention quite a bit to how the animals behave.

2 men wearing disposable hair caps talk over a large industrial-sized mixer on floor. Caption. He tested his family recipes by opening his own business.

Baseball player runs to first base as first baseman holds up his mitt. Coach and umpire watch base. Caption. And they helped me become the person that I am today.

Classroom of teenagers looks at man talking next to a woman using sign language. Curtis as narrator. Caption. I had a lot of people that doubted my ability.

Man using sign language while looking at a seated man facing him. Caption. Brian conducts presentations on being deaf in the workplace.

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Darlene C. (North Potomac, MD)

June 12th, 2019 at 08:02 PM

My students enjoyed learning about Claudia. It was motivational for the students