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Stephanie Beacham
English
Actress
About the author
Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#Nothing
#Hearing
I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#Party
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#Language
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#People
#Children
#Grace
I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#Right
#People
#Listening
I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#Talking
#Shyness
I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#Thinking
#Dancing
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
Stephanie Beacham,
English
Actress
#Work
#Being