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Lou Fant (December 13, 1931 – June 11, 2001) was a pioneering teacher, author and expert on American Sign Language (ASL). He was also an actor in film, television, and the stage.
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.
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.
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. In 1915, she and George A. Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted ...
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.
Deafhood is a term coined by Paddy Ladd in his book Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood. [1] While the precise meaning of the word remains deliberately vague—Ladd himself calls Deafhood a "process" rather than something finite and clear—it attempts to convey an affirmative and positive acceptance of being deaf.
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.
American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community.Literary genres initially developed in residential Deaf institutes, such as American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] which is where American Sign Language developed as a language in the early 19th century. [2]