Outside of acting and writing, Matlin supports many charitable causes.
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As she told PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley, the series has "broken down barriers." Matlin explained that the show "makes it very, very compelling for everyone to watch, regardless of whether you’re deaf or not." Personal Life Matlin plays a deaf teacher on the show, which also features several other deaf actors.
She soon returned to series television with a recurring role on Switched at Birth, which focuses on the lives of two teenage girls who discover that they were, as the title states, switched at birth. Matlin showed her sense of humor that same year, lending her voice to the animated series The Family Guy. In 2009, she published her autobiography, I'll Scream Later. Matlin also returned to writing, and used her own life as her subject matter. Around this time, Matlin also appeared in the television film Sweet Nothing in My Ear, which tackled the controversy surrounding cochlear implants that can give a deaf person some sensation of hearing. "I've gotten hundreds of letters each week about how much they appreciate that I've opened the eyes of hearing people that deaf people can do anything except hear," she told People magazine. She loved her time on the show, despite the grueling hours of dance practice she had to put in each week. In 2008, she showed off a new skill, appearing on the celebrity competition series Dancing with the Stars. Matlin returned to series television in 2007 with a role on the Showtime drama The L Word as a love interest for Jennifer Beals's character. She then teamed up with Doug Cooney for Nobody's Perfect (2006) and Leading Ladies (2007). Matlin's first young adult book, Deaf Child Crossing, was published in 2002. "When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf," she explained to Exceptional Parent magazine. Professor Barth holds an AB from Cornell University, an MBA from Boston University, a PhD from Stanford University, and DSc(HC)s from Lancaster University and London Business School.Around this time, Matlin branched out in a new direction, fulfilling a longtime dream. She served on the External Audit Committee of the International Monetary Fund, including as its chair.
Professor Barth is a recipient of the AAA’s Outstanding Educators Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the AAA’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, the Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award of the AAA’s International Section, and is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia and was an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She also has served as Vice President of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. Professor Barth was President of the AAA in 2013-2014 and has served as its Vice President and as Chair of several AAA committees. Prior to joining the IASB, Professor Barth’s accounting standard setting activities included serving as a member of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of CPAs and the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. She served as the Academic Advisor to the IASB from 2009 until 2011.
Professor Barth was a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) from its inception in 2001 until 2009. She served as a Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the GSB from 2002 until 2009. Davis Award for a lifetime of service as a GSB faculty member. Professor Barth is a recipient of the GSB’s MBA Distinguished Teaching Award, MSx Teaching Excellence Award, PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award, and Robert J. She has been the Accounting Department Editor of Management Science and Co-editor of the Journal of Financial Reporting, and served on the Editorial Boards of several other academic journals. She is Senior Editor of The Accounting Review and has previously served as an Editor. Professor Barth’s research is published in a variety of journals and has won several awards, including the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, the AAA’s Competitive Manuscript Award, and, on three occasions each, the AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award and the Best Paper Award of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the AAA. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford in 1995, she was an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and an audit partner in Arthur Andersen & Co. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emerita at the Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (GSB).
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