Reading Rainbow · SEASON 11
Silent Lotus
Episode 5 · 1993-10-15

- Kids
Episode overview
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.
30 minutes
Season 11 episodes
1. Amazing Grace1993-10-11
2. The Furry News1993-10-12
3. Mrs. Katz and Tush1993-10-13
4. The Salamander Room1993-10-14
5. Silent Lotus1993-10-15
6. Follow the Drinking Gourd1993-10-18
7. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie1993-10-19
8. Is This a House for Hermit Crab?1993-10-20
9. And Still the Turtle Watched1993-10-21
10. June 29, 19991993-10-22