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Tsutomu Aragaki – Japanese tenor, blind from just after birth. [20] Garret Barry – an Irish uilleann piper, among the most famous players of the 19th century. [21] Delta Blind Billy – an American Delta blues artist and outlaw. [22] Blind Blake – American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. [23] The Blind Boys of Alabama – Gospel ...
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.
This autobiography was later discovered by Zina Weygand in the hospital's archives, and with the assistance of Catherine Kudlick, Weygand translated the work and published it as Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France. The book is known for being the first French-language book by a blind person ...
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.
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]
Nellie Zimmerman, the deaf and blind woman who was discovered tucked away and forgotten for nearly two decades in the psychiatric ward at Massillon State Hospital in the middle of the 1970s, died ...
As Eline Øidvin approached the top of Mt. Langley, a 14,000-foot colossus in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada, she could feel the soft, sandy gravel beneath her feet.She could hear the ...
In 2023 she received International Woman's day Award from the Delhi Commission for women; In 2022 she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for empowering visually impaired rural women. In 2021, she received the Inspiring Woman Award from eiT NASSCOM. In 2020, she received The Holman Prize [21] from the Lighthouse for the Blind, United States. [3]