Season 1 (4 DVD)
Synopsis :
Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano) is an artistic teenager being raised by her stay-at-home mom Kathryn (Lea Thompson) and former professional baseball player father John (D. W. Moffett), in the wealthy neighborhood Mission Hills, Kansas, along with her brother Toby (Lucas Grabeel).
After studying blood types in school, Bay begins to wonder why her
blood type does not match her parents'. The family gets genetic testing
done and confirms that Bay is not biologically related to them. They
discover that the hospital mistakenly switched her with another newborn,
Daphne Vasquez (Katie Leclerc), 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. 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 to sign.
When the two families meet, the girls struggle with their identities
as Bay relates to Regina's artistic abilities and Daphne is drawn to
John's athletic skills, as well as the family's friendly demeanor. The
Kennishes learn that Regina is facing financial woes and propose the
Vasquezes move into their guest home. The new living situation forces
the girls, along with both families, to understand their differences and
embrace their similarities. Kathryn wants to bond with Daphne as her
mother and unintentionally alienates Bay, whereas Regina is fighting
Kathryn's influence on Daphne and though she sometimes bonds with Bay,
she doesn't want to switch children.
Oscar winning actress and Deaf advocate Marlee Matlin plays a friend of Regina's and the mother of Emmett (Sean Berdy), Daphne's best friend and school-mate.
Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_at_Birth_%28TV_series%29
