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  2. Helen Keller - Wikipedia

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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, radical socialist, birth control supporter, and opponent of Woodrow Wilson.

  3. 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.

  4. Helen May Martin - Wikipedia

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    Helen May Martin was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the daughter of John Henry Martin, a salesman, and Helen Smith Martin, a teacher and milliner. [2] [3] She was deaf and blind from childhood. [4]

  5. Haben Girma - Wikipedia

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    A settlement agreement was reached, with Scribd agreeing to provide content accessible to blind readers by the end of 2017. "I found my voice when I was given the tools to learn," Girma emphasizes. [14] In 2014, Girma gave a talk at TEDx Baltimore. [15]

  6. Marlee Matlin - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, Matlin appeared in CODA, an American comedy-drama film that follows a hearing teenage girl who is a child of deaf adults (CODA for short). The film stars Emilia Jones as the hearing girl, with Matlin and Troy Kotsur as her culturally deaf parents and Daniel Durant as her deaf brother; the role won her the SAG Award for Best Ensemble. [41]

  7. Heather Whitestone - Wikipedia

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    Heather Leigh Whitestone McCallum (born February 24, 1973) is an American conservative activist and beauty queen who was the first deaf Miss America title holder, having lost most of her hearing at 18 months.

  8. 'The Voice' Coaches Are Stunned By Deaf Singer's Blind ... - AOL

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    There's no shortage of talent on season 23 of The Voice -- but the coaches were blown away by a jaw-dropping Blind Audition by a deaf singer!Ali, a 24-year-old California native took the stage ...

  9. Geraldine Lawhorn - Wikipedia

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    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.