Katie Leclerc, AKA Daphne, for those of you D/
Katie Leclerc plays Daphne, one of the teens, who is deaf. Leclerc, who is hard of hearing, can speak and is fluent in American Sign Language. Sean Berdy, a deaf actor, plays Emmett, Daphne's best friend.
Sean Berdy is a deaf man who plays a deaf character on the show Switched at Birth. He was really the first well known deaf person to make it into popular hearing culture. He has become very supported and is not oral in any way, he relies totally on signing and his interpreter.
Switched at Birth is a TV series in which two girls were switched at birth. One girl was deaf and the other was hearing. While both families are hearing, one family grew up with a deaf daughter and was more accustomed to life with a Deaf child. When both families met, they had to adapt to each other's lifestyle.
Emmett (Sean Berdy) and Travis (Ryan Lane), both profoundly deaf, have prominent roles, and many others have had reoccurring parts as deaf students. Although the actress who plays Daphne is not deaf herself, she does have a medical condition called Meniere's disease, which results in a loss of hearing.
The next morning, Daphne wakes up hearing, in a world without the switch. She is now Bay, and the Kennish household is completely different. She's a star soccer player, and John is her coach.
Season Four
Lily became pregnant after she and Toby broke up but nothing happened as she said that many many many many many times to Toby . After a call from her doctor asking her to get tested because of her brother, Lily discovers that Carlton has Down Syndrome.
But the deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on "Switched at Birth" because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.
Stephanie Nogueras is an actress of Puerto Rican descent who plays Natalie Pierce on the show Switched at Birth. Born in Camden, New Jersey and raised in Pine Hill, New Jersey and also Frederick, Maryland. She is profoundly Deaf and is fluent in American Sign Language.
Noah also suffers from Ménière's, which currently is slowly causing him to lose his hearing. He frequently has "dizzy spells," where he feels a loss of balance severe enough to cause him to fall over, and during these dizzy spells, it is apparent that he cannot hear at all.
Katie Leclerc, who plays the deaf sister Daphne Vasquez, was fluent in sign language before she started the show, but several cast members didn't know any ASL before starting production.
Switched at Birth is a 1991 American miniseries directed by Waris Hussein. It is based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978. NBC aired the production as a two-part miniseries over two consecutive nights on April 28, 1991.
In Yuletide Fortune Tellers, Bay and Daphne think about what life would be like if they switch had never happened, and wake up the next morning in a world where the switch did not happened. Bay is deaf, and lives with Regina and her younger brother. Her name is Daphne Sorrento.
Trivia. He had a former crush on Daphne since he was eight years old. Although he never dated Daphne, they did kiss once her feelings became apparent, but by the time she realized he was already with Bay. He claims Daphne just had bad timing.
Daphne Paloma Vasquez-Kennish. Played by Katie Leclerc, Daphne Paloma Vasquez-Kennish (born Bay Madeline Kennish) is the legal daughter of Regina Vasquez and Angelo Sorrento and biological daughter of John and Kathryn Kennish. Daphne lost her hearing at a young age due to a bad case of meningitis.
Switched at Birth not only highlighted the Deaf community, but it also created a stepping stone for hearing people to find interest in the culture. Since the success of the five-season program, many Deaf actors have found a better footing in mainstream film and television.
Born deaf, Sean Berdy is an actor, comedian, writer and producer known for his leading role as Emmett in the TV show Switched at Birth. He earned early success in his breakout role in The Sandlot 2, playing Sammy 'Fingers' Samuelson. Berdy is bi-lingual, fluent in both American Sign Language (ASL) and English.
Life and career. Nogueras was born "profoundly deaf". She is Puerto Rican from New Jersey originally, and was raised in a hearing family. Holding a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, she has mentored people in deaf culture and American Sign Language.
In Switched at Birth, she plays Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at the age of 3 when she contracted meningitis. Although Daphne is profoundly deaf, she reads lips and is able—and willing—to use spoken English, which she speaks with a “deaf accent” that the actress who plays her doesn't share.
Research shows that children who learn to sign early do better across a range of measures, including academic achievement, than children who don't. It also suggests that children who begin to learn sign language at birth have more success learning to use cochlear implants to access speech.
American Sign Language (ASL) is a complete, natural language that has the same linguistic properties as spoken languages, with grammar that differs from English. ASL is expressed by movements of the hands and face.
It is implied that they have twins together in The Image Disappears, when Bay passes out from donating blood and has a dream where she's giving birth with Angelo by her side and when she wakes up, Emmett is there.
After a while, both of them want a romantic relationship again. They start dating again, and this time, it lasts. Upon learning that Nikki will soon be leaving for a 6-month mission trip to Peru, Toby proposes, and Nikki says yes.
After a paternity test proved that Angelo was Abby's biological father, a judge ruled that custody of Abby should be returned to Angelo and she came to live with him.
Eventually, Simon makes peace with his past and the two reconcile their relationship. The season ends with Daphne giving birth to their first child, a baby boy.