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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.
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.
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 ...
Howie Seago, actor and director. Millicent Simmonds, deaf actress. Shoshannah Stern, actress in Jericho and Weeds whose first language is American Sign Language [9] Alexandria Wailes, deaf actress, dancer, and educator. Bruce Willis, American actor, producer, and singer, 70% deaf in his left ear.
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 ...
Awards. Laurent Clerc Award (1989) Jack Randle Gannon (November 23, 1936 – March 14, 2022) was an American author and historian of Deaf culture. Deaf since age eight, he had chronicled the history and culture of Deaf people and organizations around the world, most notably in his 1981 book Deaf Heritage. Gannon was an educator at the Nebraska ...
Elsa Sjunneson. Olga Skorokhodova. Robert Smithdas. Opeoluwa Sotonwa. Jean St. Clair (deaf actress) Edith G. Stedman. Louise Stern. Peter Sullivan (screenwriter) Samuel James Supalla.
Bernard Bragg. Bernard Bragg (September 27, 1928 – October 29, 2018) was a deaf actor, producer, director, playwright, artist, and author who is notable for being a co-founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf and for his contributions to Deaf performing culture. According to The New York Times, Bragg was "regarded by many as the leading ...