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  2. List of deaf people - Wikipedia

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    Maxine "Max" Coleman, a deaf girl and Esther's adoptive younger sister in 2009 horror film Orphan. Hearthstone, a deaf elf and one of Magnus's friends from Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. Regan Abbott, a deaf daughter of Evelyn & Lee Abbott in 2018 horror film A Quiet Place. Jia Andrews, a deaf girl in 2021 film Godzilla vs ...

  3. List of deaf firsts - Wikipedia

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    Ferdinand Berthier, French deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser, first deaf person to receive the Legion of Honour (1849) [1]; Helen Keller, American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree (1904) [2]

  4. 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, Christian socialist, birth control supporter, and opponent of Woodrow Wilson.

  5. Category:Lists of deaf people - Wikipedia

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    Deaf people in the Olympics; W. List of deaf world records in athletics This page was last edited on 24 January 2023, at 21:09 (UTC). ...

  6. George Veditz - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Deaf history - Wikipedia

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    Sign language is the most important instrument for communication between deaf people and the Deaf culture. Using sign language deaf people can join social networks, local and globally, which join the Deaf culture together. Sign Language is a loose term for people that are deaf or hard of hearing and use signs to communicate.

  8. 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.

  9. Betty G. Miller - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of this movement was the define the difference between art made by deaf people, and art made about the deaf experience. Miller was the first known artists to exhibit art about the deaf experience, some notable works being "Ameslan Prohibited", "Let There Be Light", and "Bell School".