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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; George Veditz, the former president of the National Association of the Deaf, and one of the first people to film sign language
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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.
Helen Keller, American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree (1904) [2] Pierre Gorman, Australian librarian, academic and educator of children with disabilities, first deaf person to receive a PhD at Cambridge University (1960). [3]
Pages in category "Literature about deaf people" ... Letter on the Deaf and Dumb; List of children's books featuring deaf characters; M. Master Humphrey's Clock;
American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community.Literary genres initially developed in residential Deaf institutes, such as American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] which is where American Sign Language developed as a language in the early 19th century. [2]
Stories about Successful Deaf People, Book 1. Darlene Toole Biographies of six Deaf people, Evelyn Glennie, Howie Seago, Dr. Shirley Allen, John Woo, Karen Meyer and Paul Ogden. Biographies 1996 A Maiden's Grave: Jeffery Deaver The main event in this book is that a bus of eight deaf students (aged 8–17 years) are taken hostage with their ...
Clayton Valli (May 25, 1951 – March 7, 2003) was an American prominent deaf linguist and American Sign Language (ASL) poet whose work helped further to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature.