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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 she met her ...
Girma was born in Oakland, California in 1988 to an Eritrean immigrant family. Her father Girma Kidane Adgoy was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and her mother Saba Gebreyesus was born in Asmara. [5] [6] Her mother fled Eritrea to Sudan among many other Ethiopian/Eritrean refugees in 1983 during the Eritrean War of Independence and Ethiopian ...
Judith Heumann. Judith Ellen "Judy" Heumann ( / ˈhjuːmən /; [2] December 18, 1947 – March 4, 2023) was an American disability rights activist, known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement". [3] She was recognized internationally as a leader in the disability community. Heumann was a lifelong civil rights advocate for people with ...
Tsutomu Aragaki – Japanese tenor, blind from just after birth. [20] Garret Barry – an Irish uilleann piper, among the most famous players of the 19th century. [21] Delta Blind Billy – an American Delta blues artist and outlaw. [22] Blind Blake – American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.
United States. Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Disabled rights activist. Psychotherapist. Harilyn Rousso (born May 21, 1946) is an American disabled rights activist, psychotherapist, artist, [1] and feminist. In 2003 [1] she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project. [2]
Early life. Adam Pearson was born in Croydon, London on 6 January 1985, along with his identical twin brother, Neil. After he hit his head at the age of five, the resultant bump persisted instead of healing. He was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type I, which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerve tissue. Both Adam and his brother Neil ...
Website. nickvujicic.com. Nicholas James Vujicic ( / ˈvuːɪtʃɪtʃ / VOO-itch-itch; [1] born 4 December 1982) [2] [3] is an Australian-American [4] Christian evangelist and motivational speaker of Serbian descent. Vujicic has tetra-amelia syndrome, a disorder characterised by the absence of arms and legs. [5]
Leonard Trask (1805–1861), [39] whose condition provided the first American description of anklyosing spondylitis. Dylan Verrechia (born 1976) filmmaker. Michael Woodhouse (born c. 1965 ), [40] Minister of Immigration, Police, and Workplace Relations and Safety for New Zealand, and Honorary Life Member of Arthritis New Zealand.