Marlee Matlin: Let children be heard
April 3rd, 2009
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Educators reached for the tissues this week when Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin delivered the keynote address at the Council for Exceptional Children’s national convention in Seattle.
Her message: A big thank-you to those who speak up on behalf of people who can’t speak for themselves. “I know,” she told the crowd, “that I am here today because people like you listened to me.”
Matlin, who is deaf, praised educators for their work encouraging children to follow their dreams. “I will always be listening to my children and any child that wants to be heard,” Matlin signed to the crowd. “In the end, silence will be the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
“And I know and can feel that it’s the same for you.”
(Photo from Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

