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Allred is legally deaf, with 75%–80% hearing loss due to Rh complications at birth. [1] [2] [3] He is also an inspirational speaker and author, with his first book, Longshot: The Adventures of a Deaf Fundamentalist Mormon Kid and His Journey to the NBA, published by HarperCollins in 2009.
Andrew Jackson Foster (1925–1987) was an American pioneer of deaf education in several countries in Africa. In 1954, he became the first Deaf African American to earn a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet University, the American university for the Deaf, and the first to earn a master's degree from Eastern Michigan University.
She was passionate about deaf issues, culture and sign language and longed to bridge the gap between deaf and hearing people. [9] She features as one of a series of portraits of notable deaf artists painted by Nancy Rourke. [10] The Dorothy Miles Cultural Centre was established by a group of both Deaf and hearing friends in her memory.
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.
Open your mind (and heart) with these profound and inspirational spiritual quotes. The post 80 Best Spiritual Quotes That Will Lift Up Your Soul appeared first on Reader's Digest.
The project eventually evolved into a graphic novel where children who were deaf could see themselves positively represented in a book. Bell uses the imagery of everyone illustrated as rabbits as a visual metaphor. When she was growing up, she felt like she was the only "rabbit" whose ears didn't work, in doing so she shows being deaf as a power.
John Lee Clark (born 1978) is an American deafblind poet, writer, and activist from Minnesota.He is the author of Suddenly Slow (2008) and Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (2014), and the editor of anthologies Deaf American Poetry (2009) and Deaf Lit Extravaganza (2013).
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 ...