
She was raised in the wealthy neighborhood of Mission Hills by John and Kathryn Kennish. Vanessa Marano as Bay Madeline Kennish: the biological daughter of Regina Vasquez and Angelo Sorrento.She also speaks without the accent through almost the entire episode 15 of season 2, "Ecce Mono", which is an alternative reality in which Daphne was raised by the Kennishes from age three and got a cochlear implant. She developed a deaf accent for her role as Daphne, but speaks without it briefly in a scene in season 1, episode 9 where Daphne dreams the switch never occurred, and she was raised as Bay Kennish and retains her hearing.

Hard of hearing rather than deaf, Leclerc learned ASL at age 17, before she was diagnosed at age 20 with Ménière's disease which runs in her family.

Main article: List of Switched at Birth episodesīay Kennish, a teenage girl living in the Kansas City suburb of Mission Hills, Kansas, discovers from a school lab assignment that her blood type is incompatible with that of her parents. In October 2016, the network announced that the final season would premiere on January 31, 2017. On March 19, 2016, it was announced that the fifth season was bumped from a March 2016 to a January 2017 premiere date.
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On October 21, 2015, ABC Family (now rebranded as Freeform) confirmed the series had been renewed for its fifth season, which was later confirmed to be the final season. On August 13, 2014, ABC Family renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on January 6, 2015.

The series won an honorary Peabody Award in 2013, and on July 30, ABC Family ordered a third season which premiered on January 13, 2014. The show's debut was ABC Family's highest-rated series debut to date. According to ABC Family, it is "the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars and scenes shot entirely in American Sign Language (ASL)". The one-hour scripted drama is set in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and revolves around two teenagers who were switched at birth and grew up in very different environments: one in an affluent suburb, and the other in a working-class neighborhood. Switched at Birth is an American teen and family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6, 2011. Productions (from "This Is The Color Of My Dreams")
