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Helen Keller, American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and actress; Dorothy Miles, deaf poet and activist; Lawrence R. Newman, deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf; Michael Ndurumo, a deaf educator from Kenya, the third deaf person from Africa to be awarded a PhD
Brockway served as chair of the National Association of the Deaf's Deaf Culture and History section from 2014 to 2018. From 2017 to 2018, she was Deaf History Researcher for the ASL Rose Company, a company that provides deaf-centered educational resources. [3] Brockway currently works with the Deaf Cultural Digital Library. [4]
Pages in category "American deaf people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 226 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Conley is the most widely produced, living deaf playwright [citation needed]; his plays explore a broad palette – from the Deaf perspective – of circumstances with and without hearing characters, allowing Deaf characters to interact minus the direct influence that the dominant (hearing) culture might exert.
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).
All conversation is happening in American Sign Language, and also in Protactile, a still-emerging language used by deafblind people to communicate via touch. In Deaf West’s “Oedipus,” the ...
People know the story: Everyone knows the story of 'Cinderella,' and so we give it a deaf lens, a new lens." Sandra Mae Frank rehearses with the cast and crew of "Cinderella" in Oklahoma City ...
In Deaf culture, person-first language (i.e., person who is deaf, person who is hard of hearing) has long been rejected since being culturally Deaf is seen as a source of positive self-acceptance. [9] Instead, Deaf culture uses Deaf-first language: Deaf person or hard-of-hearing person. [10]