InfoGuides: Children of Deaf Adults (CODA): Videos

Last Updated: Oct 17, 2025 11:29 AM

Videos

You can request "offsite videos" in building 99. Delivery will be made within one day. You can borrow a DVD player from the library services desk. View this video to see how you can request off-site videos. Other options include using the JustWatch website to find streaming videos to rent or buy. Sometimes there are free options as well.

Abababa alife: a special performance of the Abababa Road Tour taped live at the Imagination Stage Theater
Offsite video. Use request tab and it will be delivered within a day. DVD player available at the desk.
Alan Abarbanell, a CODA (Children of Deaf Adults), shares his funny and poignant experiences as a hearing child of deaf parents and his connection with the Deaf world
Beyond Silence
Offsite DVD. Request tab tor delivery within one day.
The Commerce of ASL: Online Overload. Volume One
Offsite DVD. Use request tab for delivery within one day. Library services desk as a DVD player.
Deaf Culture Lectures: Shared Wisdom for Families
Offsite DVD. Use request tab and it will be delivered within a day. DVD player can be borrowed from the library services desk. Focuses on parenting, advice about raising children and shared wisdom between parents who have already experienced raising children. The groups whose experience & advice on raising children this video is drawn on are: deaf parents with hearing children, deaf parents with deaf children, deaf parents with hearing and deaf children, hearing parents with deaf children, hearing parents with deaf and hearing children, and codas, which are hearing children of deaf adults
Hear and Now
Offsite DVD. Request tab for delivery within one day.
Hey Listen! Children of Deaf Adults (CODA)
Online video.Three hearing adults (Florene Hughes, Arden Coulston, and Dorothy Cimo-Baldassare)with deaf parents share their stories about growing up. Three very different experiences are described.
I Love You
Offsite DVD. Request tab for delivery within one day.
Khamoshi: the Musical
Offsite DVD. Use request tab for delivery within one day. Library services desk has a DVD player.
Koshish
Offsite DVD. Use the request tab for delivery within one day. Library services desk has a DVD player.
Laugh. Learn. Sign
Offsite DVD. Use request tab. The library services desk has a DVD player.

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The CODA Brothers, Andy and Ben Olson, have been entertaining many viewers with their humorous Vlogs about growing up with Deaf parents. This DVD contains many of their stories, re-recorded and expanded, and reverse interpreted for the signing impaired. It also includes two bonus features never before seen on the web, a section about the CODA Brothers and "What Is a CODA?"
Love Is Never Silent
Offsite DVD. Request tab for delivery within one day.
Mother, Father, Deaf
Onlne video. Through the stories of three CODAs (children of deaf adults), this film offers a previously unseen portrayal and exploration of these children’s daily reality and upbringing.
My Experience Different
Offsite DVD. Use request tab for delivery within one day. Library services desk has a DVD player.
My Father's Gift: The Love, the Commitment, My Parents
Offsite DVD. Use request tab for delivery withiin one day. The library services desk has a DVD player you can borrow.
Passport Without a Country
Online video.
Bridging Two Worlds (3:34); Children of Deaf Adults (3:32); Interpreting for Family (4:11); The Deaf World (3:20); Speech Development (1:55); Memories of Childhood (3:19); Communication Challenges (2:37); The Hearing World (3:56); On Relationships (3:55); Marrying Outside the Deaf Community (4:02); A Search for Identity (3:23); Joining the Hearing World (5:05); Finding a Balance (3:07); Credits: Passport Without a Country (1:04);
Tomorrow Dad Will Still Be Deaf
Off site. Use the request tab and the DVD will be delivered within a day. There is also a DVD player you can borrow from the library services desk.
Watching Two Worlds Collide
Offsite DVD. Use request tab. Library services desk has a DVD player. Comedian Keith Wann gives a performance in American Sign Language, telling of his experiences growing up as a child of deaf adults (CODA). He talks about the differences between the Deaf and hearing worlds and the sometimes hilarious things that happen when they collide
CODA Performers