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  2. Pär Aron Borg - Wikipedia

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    The school had deaf teachers, and the instruction was taught in sign language. [1] Among his notable students was concert singer, composer and poet Charlotta Seuerling (1782/1784–1828). He was the guardian and mentor of Johanna Berglind (1816–1903), also an important figure in the history of the education of the deaf in Sweden. [3] [4]

  3. Morrison Heady - Wikipedia

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    The Blind Bard of Kentucky was blind by fifteen and deaf before forty. Neither condition limited his contributions. As friends read aloud, he embossed notes on the Diplograph machine he invented and built. He invented the Talking Glove with the alphabet printed on it so others could communicate by touching the letters.

  4. Ossian Edmund Borg - Wikipedia

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    Ossian Edmund Borg (6 August 1812 – 10 April 1892) was a Swedish teacher of the deaf and head of the Manillaskolan school for the deaf. He was the son of Pär Aron Borg , pioneer of deaf schooling in Sweden.

  5. Helen Keller - Wikipedia

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    Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent. [49] In 1912, Keller joined the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW, known as the Wobblies), [44] saying that parliamentary socialism was "sinking in the political bog". She ...

  6. Samuel Akerly - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Akerly (May 1785 – July 6, 1845) was an American physician, superintendent of the New York Institution for the Deaf from 1821 to 1831, and co-founder and president of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind from 1831 to 1842.

  7. Edmund Booth - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Booth (1810 – 1905) was a journalist, writer, and leader in the American deaf community. Booth was born August 24, 1810, in Springfield, Massachusetts. [1] He became partly deaf and blind in one eye at the age of four from an attack of meningitis. [1] At the age of eight he became totally deaf. [1] He never lost his ability to speak. [1]

  8. Pioneer Bible Translators - Wikipedia

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    Pioneer Bible Translators is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) [1] mission organization focused on Bible translation in languages that do not already have a Bible. [2] [3]

  9. Laura Bridgman - Wikipedia

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    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.

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