Alarms are sounded several times, but we never hear them, in a tremendously effective and thematically overdue episode of ABC Family’s best-of-network Switched at Birth (8/7c), which unfolds almost entirely in American Sign Language. By necessity, actions speak louder than words — all in subtitles, or sometimes tweets — as the deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Carlton School for the Deaf rally to protest the school board’s decision to shutter their campus. (The hearing students, whose integration into the student body has caused some friction this season, also pitch in.)

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