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Education. California School for the Deaf. Alma mater. Gallaudet University. Occupation (s) Writer, educator. Notable work. The Signing Naturally Curriculum Series, National consortium of Programs for the Training of Sign Language Instructors (NCPTSLI) Ella Mae Lentz (born May 5, 1954) is a Deaf American author, poet, teacher, and advocate.
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). [1][2] Clark was the recipient of a ...
Signature. 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. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when ...
ASL advocacy & Storyteller. Benjamin James Bahan is a professor of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University [1] and a member of the deaf community. He is an influential figure in American Sign Language literature as a storyteller and writer of deaf culture. He is known for the stories "The Ball Story" and "Birds of a Different Feather".
Dorothy Miles. Dorothy "Dot" Miles (née Squire; 19 August 1931 - 30 January 1993) was a Welsh poet and activist in the Deaf community. Throughout her life, she composed her poems in English, British Sign Language, and American Sign Language. Her work laid the foundations for modern sign language poetry in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The American Annals of the Deaf is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly with one annual reference issue. [ 1 ] The journal is published by Gallaudet University Press in Washington, D.C. It was first established in 1847 as the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb. The journal's name was changed in 1886 upon the printing of volume ...
Brockway was born in Washington, D.C. [ 1] Brockway, who is deaf, was adopted. Her family, who did not previously know American Sign Language (ASL), learned ASL Gallaudet University in order to teach Kathleen at home. [ 1] Brockway graduated from the Model Secondary School for the Deaf. She later attended Gallaudet University and graduated with ...
Savanna. Died. April 2, 1925 (aged 83) Angeline Fuller Fischer (August 11, 1841 – April 2, 1925) was an American writer. She is considered one of the earliest deaf feminists due to her advocacy for the equal education of deaf women. Her poems and articles were published in publications across the United States; in 1908 the newspaper The ...