DEAF
(See also Sign Language [Deaf])
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
babies of deaf parents: g02 6/8 28
Bible usage: it-1 595-596
Bible view: mrt article 81
communicating with:
children learn how: g90 1/22 30
hearing-impaired: g97 9/22 24; g88 7/8 20
lipreading: g02 10/8 31; g90 3/22 30
sign language: w09 8/15 24-25; g98 9/8 19-25; g89 8/22 8
computers help in learning to speak: g94 11/22 28-29
degrees of deafness: g89 8/22 5-6
dogs trained to assist: g04 2/22 4; g00 2/22 30; g99 7/22 19-20
evidence of becoming: g02 5/22 21
feelings: g89 8/22 4, 8
help for: g89 8/22 4-10
spiritual needs: g 7/10 26-27; w09 8/15 24-27; km 11/93 7
Jehovah “appoints” (Ex 4:11): it-1 595; w99 5/1 28
Jesus heals: jy 138; w00 2/15 17; gt chapter 57; w87 11/15 9
why privately: cf 154; cl 94-95; w18.09 29-30; w96 3/1 5-6
Law covenant: it-1 595
misconceptions clarified: w09 8/15 24
prejudice toward: g20.3 7
prevalence of deafness: mrt article 81; g05 12/8 30
reading: w09 8/15 24-25; g98 9/8 20-21
rock stars: g89 1/8 30; g89 10/22 29
spiritual deafness: it-1 596
symbolic:
‘deaf ones will hear’ (Isa 29:18): kr 235; ip-1 298, 300-301
deaf servant of Jehovah (Isa 42:18-25; 43:8): ip-2 44-47
treatment:
cochlear implants: g88 7/8 19
electronic inner ear: g89 8/22 9
shunt tube for Ménière’s disease: g88 7/8 19
stapes replacement for otosclerosis: g88 7/8 20-21
unfair treatment: mrt article 81
youths becoming, because of loud music: g02 5/22 19; g99 1/8 29; g90 6/22 30
Jehovah’s Witnesses
appreciating deaf Witnesses: w09 11/15 30-32
appreciation for sign-language videos: yb11 8-9; w09 8/15 25-26
efforts to assist the deaf: mrt article 81
Bible studies: mrt article 81
JW Library Sign Language app: hdu article 22; mrt article 81
meetings and events: mrt article 81
New World Translation: mrt article 81
searching for deaf in territory: km 7/12 6-7
videos in sign languages: hdu article 22; mrt article 81; yb12 67; yb11 7-8; yb10 28-29; w09 8/15 25; yb07 22-23; yb04 10; w03 6/15 10-11; yb01 17, 197; km 9/00 3; yb99 20, 22; w98 1/1 17
website jw.org: mrt article 81; g 1/14 2; km 12/12 6
when found in ministry: w09 11/15 31; km 6/01 1; km 9/99 2
efforts to assist the deaf, by place: w04 7/1 11; yb99 20, 22
Argentina: yb01 196-197
Brazil: yb07 6-7, 22-23; w04 7/1 11; w03 2/1 24; yb01 47-48
Cuba: w14 11/15 2
Dominican Republic: yb15 166-167
Finland: lfs article 11
Great Britain: lfs article 16
Indonesia: yb16 156-157; g 4/13 13
Italy: w05 6/15 14-15; w04 1/1 17
Japan: yb98 153
Korea: kr 58-59; w03 6/15 8-11
Nigeria: yb00 50-51
Panama: w06 4/15 11-12
Philippines: yb03 246, 248-250
Russia: yb08 235-236
Sierra Leone: yb14 161-162
South Africa: yb07 154-155
Spain: w05 11/1 32
Sri Lanka: yb17 63
Uganda: g97 2/22 28
United States: yb04 9; km 6/01 1; yb97 63-64
examples:
deaf and blind: ijwex article 32; mrt article 81; w09 11/15 31
family study: w09 11/15 30-31
parents with hearing children: mrt article 81
experiences:
accept truth: g 2/11 8; w05 2/1 17-18; w03 2/1 24; w03 6/15 10-11; yb90 51-52
Altay Republic: w12 3/1 24-25
Awake! article on sign language: g99 5/8 30
Benin: w12 12/1 22-23
Bible student teaches sign language to Witness: km 2/98 3-4
come to Witness booth: w05 4/15 9
cries over sign-language video: w09 8/15 26
cult member: yb13 60
deaf and blind man reached: yb14 59, 61-63
deaf and blind Witnesses: g 12/15 2
deaf and blind women: yb15 150-152; yb97 195
deaf boy: mrt article 81
deaf daughter: w06 4/15 11-12
deaf family: lfs article 11
deaf from birth: yb14 161-162
deaf girl at meetings: g16.5 13
deaf girl seeking love and warmth: w12 1/1 19-20
deaf mother of child with Down syndrome: yb12 66-67
deaf pastor: ijwcl article 9; mrt article 81
deaf twins taught by blind uncle: yb03 248
deaf youth: g 8/15 11
decide against abortion: g 7/10 27; w09 8/15 26
depressed woman: w02 3/15 25
difficult deaf man: yb07 62
discovers purpose in life: ijwcl article 25
Dominican Republic: yb15 166-167
Estonia: g97 3/8 25
finds deaf after praying: yb17 48-49
finds Watchtower, visits branch: yb88 55-56
first-person account of recovery: g88 7/8 19-21
Ghana: w16.07 6
home for elderly: w05 11/1 32
journalist commends Witness efforts: g 7/10 26
learns to read lips and text: yb06 57-58
met on bus begging: yb04 63-64
met on street: yb03 48
mother with deaf son: g97 8/22 30; g96 11/8 10-13
newly baptized girl appeals to classmates: yb13 54-55
New World Translation: yb11 7
opposition turns into interest: w95 1/15 8
Papua New Guinea: yb14 74-75
pioneer: w86 11/15 24
prays to find deaf Witnesses: yb02 56
schoolteacher: yb07 23
video publications in sign languages: yb11 7-8; w09 8/15 26
field ministry: w09 11/15 30
life stories:
A Note That Changed My Life: w03 1/1 23-26
Being Deaf Has Not Held Me Back From Teaching Others: w17.05 13-16
Fulfilling My Desire to Help Deaf People: lfs article 11
“I Saw, but I Could Not Understand”: w13 3/1 10-12
Jehovah Rewarded the Work of My Hands: lfs article 16
Teaching Kristi to Love God: g04 4/8 14-15
Though Deaf and Blind, I Found Security: g01 4/22 19-23; g01 12/22 30
number of publishers: yb11 8