Teens

TV Shows, Games, Movies, Etc):

TV Shows: 

• Switched at Birth - two teenage girls, Bay Kennish and Daphne Vasquez, who discover they were switched at birth and raised by the wrong families: Bay by wealthy parents, and Daphne by a single mother in a working-class neighborhood after contracting meningitis at a young age, which left her deaf. (ASL)

• The Society - The Society is a Netflix drama about the teenagers of West Ham, Connecticut, who are mysteriously transported to a replica of their town after returning from a canceled field trip. With all the adults gone and the town sealed off by a surrounding forest, the teens must learn to govern themselves, deal with power struggles, and find a way back home, all while uncovering the truth behind their disappearance. (ASL)

• Black Summer, first three episodes of season 1 - Rose, a mother separated from her daughter in the early, chaotic days of the outbreak, as she embarks on a desperate journey with other survivors to find her family and reach a rumored evacuation site. (ASL)

• Supernatural, seasons 11 and 12 -n brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, who hunt demons, ghosts, and other monsters after their mother's death at the hands of a supernatural being. (ASL)

• Black Lightning, seasons 2 and 3 - Jefferson Pierce, the principal of Garfield High School in the city of Freeland, Georgia, was once a superhero called Black Lightning, but he retired when that life negatively impacted his ex-wife and his daughters. (ASL)

• The Magicians, seasons 2-4 - Quentin Coldwater discovers his favorite childhood fantasy books about a magical land called Fillory are real. (ASL)

• Echo -  Marvel's Echo follows Maya Lopez as she returns to her Native American hometown after the events of Hawkeye. (ASL) 

Movies:

• CODA (ASL)

• Deaf President Now! (ASL)

• The Silent Child (British Sign Language)

Games:

• In-Game Sign (Video Game)

  • Moss (ASL)

  • Spider-Man: Miles Morales (ASL)

  • Harmonium: The Musical (ASL)

• Games with Sign Language Support

  • Forza Horizon 5 (ASL and BSL)

• Board/Roleplay Games for Learning Sign Language

  • Inspirisles, Overisles, and Underisles - An award-winning tabletop RPG series developed with the Deaf community that promotes Deaf awareness, storytelling, and empathy through sign language. (ASL and BSL).

  • HiSign - An educational board game designed to teach ASL through words, phrases, and sentences to improve communication between hearing and non-hearing individuals.  

  • Sign: A Game about Being Understood - This game is based on the history of Nicaraguan Sign Language. Nicaragua in the 1970s had no official form of sign language. In 1977, something happened. Fifty deaf children from across the country were brought together to a school in Managua. Without a shared language to express themselves, the children did something remarkable—they created one. In Sign, we follow a story inspired by that journey.