Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Haben Girma (born July 29, 1988) [1] [2] is an American disability rights advocate, and the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Early life and education
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.
Haben Girma, the first deafblind individual to graduate from Harvard Law School, released an autobiography entitled Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law (2019). [ 19 ] Feeling Through (2019) is an American short drama film directed by Doug Roland that was the first film ever to star a deafblind actor (Robert Tarango) in a lead ...
Haben received positive reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and BookPage. [4] [3] [5] It was selected as a "New & Noteworthy" book by the New York Times.[6]O referred to Girma as "a millennial Helen Keller" in recommending her book to readers. [7]
One of first deafblind African American people to obtain a bachelor degree Geraldine Jerrie Lawhorn (December 31, 1916 – July 3, 2016) was a figure of the American deafblind community, a performer, actress, pianist, then instructor at the Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired .
Jenee Alleman, a DeafBlind woman who lives in Leavenworth, placed second in the Life Time UNBOUND Gravel race with her husband.
Mae Brown (1935–1973) was the second deaf-blind woman and the first deaf-blind Canadian to earn a university degree. [1] She graduated from the University of Toronto Scarborough in 1972. Early life
Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide.