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Keller became a world-famous speaker and author. She was an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She traveled to twenty-five different countries giving motivational speeches about deaf people's conditions. [43] She was a suffragist, pacifist, Christian socialist, birth control supporter, and opponent of Woodrow Wilson.
Cogswell is known as a remarkable figure in the history of deaf culture, illustrating a breakthrough in deaf education. She showed that the deaf are capable of being taught and of high intelligence. Alice stands as an example of Frederick C. Schreiber's famous quote, "Deaf people can do anything hearing people can do, except hear."
Lawrence R. Newman, deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf; Michael Ndurumo, a deaf educator from Kenya, the third deaf person from Africa to be awarded a PhD; Marie Jean Philip, a teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language
Bridgman became famous in her youth as an example of the education of a deaf-blind person. Helen Keller's mother, Kate Keller, read Dickens's account in American Notes and was inspired to seek advice which led to her hiring a teacher and former pupil of the same school, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan learned the manual alphabet at the Perkins ...
She was passionate about deaf issues, culture and sign language and longed to bridge the gap between deaf and hearing people. [9] She features as one of a series of portraits of notable deaf artists painted by Nancy Rourke. [10] The Dorothy Miles Cultural Centre was established by a group of both Deaf and hearing friends in her memory.
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (French: [lɔʁɑ̃ klɛʁ]; 26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American deaf history. He was taught by Abbé Sicard and deaf educator Jean Massieu, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets in Paris
Preservation of the Sign Language (1913). George William Veditz (August 13, 1861 – March 12, 1937) was an American educator, filmmaker, and activist who served as the seventh President of the National Association of the Deaf from 1904 to 1910.