Reading Rainbow

Season 11 Episode 5: Silent Lotus

This episode takes a look-in at deaf culture. LeVar discusses forms of communication that doesn't involve words, like hand signals, mime, and gestures, like in charades. He also asks a friend who is a deaf actress to teach him some sentences in sign language. Lea Salonga reads the featured story of a shy young girl in Cambodia, whose parents realized her lack of communication was due to being a deaf mute, but in noticing her natural talent for dancing, approached the king to request that their daughter be allowed to join the royal dancing troupe.

Genre:

Kids

Seasons:

21

Episodes:

155

Cast:

LeVar Burton

Quality:

HD

Duration:

30 min

First Air:

1983

Rating:

8.4