Melody, Emmett and Travis make some major decisions about their lives, and Regina takes a chance on love. Toby meets Amelia (guest star Lauren Potter), a young woman with Down Syndrome who changes his perception about his son’s future. Bay is celebrated for her tattoo work in a magazine spread, but her struggle to prove herself as an artist to John threatens to destroy their relationship. Daphne competes against Mingo for a six-week paid internship in sports medicine. As she searches for memories, Kathryn discovers a long buried family secret – stretching all the way back to the switch – that changes everything. Kathryn becomes nostalgic when she realizes that it’s been five years since the switch was discovered and the two families started living together.
Things come to a dramatic head when the families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls. His mother Melody (Marlee Matlin), is best friends with Daphne’s mom, Regina. Emmett loses it after Bay tells him what happe. Also deaf, he has a passion for photography and can be often found taking pictures or riding his motorcycle. Switched At Birth Season show reviews & Metacritic score: The deaf program at UMKC is threatened when Bays very personal matter goes public leading to an investigation. A case of meningitis caused Daphne to lose her hearing as a child so she attends Carlton, a school for the Deaf, where she plays basketball and learns sign language.Įmmett (Sean Berdy) is Daphne’s sweet but protective best friend. She’s a deaf teen living with her struggling single mother Regina (Constance Marie) and Puerto Rican grandmother (Ivonne Coll) in a working-class neighborhood in Riverside, Missouri. They discover that the hospital mistakenly switched her with another female newborn, Daphne Vasquez (Katie Leclerc). In many ways Daphne has had, what you could say, a wider range of growth as a character. There are two halves of this show, Bay (Vanessa Marano), who is hearing, and Daphne (Katie Leclerc), who is deaf. The family has some genetic tests done and discover that Bay is not biologically related to them. These past five seasons Switched at Birth have worked tirelessly to minimize the assumptions of deaf teens.
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She was raised by her stay-at-home mom Kathryn (Lea Thompson) and former professional baseball player father John (D. Privileged and eccentric, she’s lived a charmed life with the family she thought was her own. As a result, they are raised in very different environments than what they would have been.Īn artistic teenager, Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano) grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother.
This dramatic TV series tells the story of two teenage girls who discover that they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Moffett, Lea Thompson, Lucas Grabeel, Ivonne Coll, and Sean Berdy. Performers include: Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie, D.