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    The National Deaf Life Museum is a museum focusing on the culture and history of deaf and hard of hearing people in the United States. Founded in 2007...
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  • teaching, TV programs, and film festivals. In 2007, she founded the National Deaf Life Museum at Gallaudet. Born in Covington, Virginia, Nellie Jane Norman...
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    to the National Deaf Life Museum, established in 2007 as the Gallaudet University Museum. The museum focuses on the culture and history of deaf and hard...
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  • became the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1989 and relocated to Silver Spring, Maryland in 2011 Bead Museum, closed December 2008, museum website...
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    Meredith Peruzzi (category Deaf culture in the United States)
    Peruzzi (born c. 1980) is an American historian and Director of the National Deaf Life Museum (NDLM) in Washington D. C. Peruzzi grew up in Columbia, Maryland...
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    National Museum of the Philippines recognized the school's main building as an Important Cultural Property. "History | Philippine School for the Deaf"...
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  • American University Museum George Washington University Art Galleries National Deaf Life Museum at Gallaudet University Textile Museum (George Washington...
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    Ivy Green (category Deaf writers)
    known after overcoming deaf-blind conditions to communicate; she became an author and public speaker. Designated as a National Historic Landmark, it is...
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    Alexander Graham Bell (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
    elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf; profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him...
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  • The North Carolina School for the Deaf (NCSD) is a state-supported residential school for deaf children established in 1894, in Morganton, North Carolina...
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    Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, located in Staunton, Virginia, United States, is an institution for educating deaf and blind children, first...
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    Helen Keller (category Deaf activists)
    she went to New Zealand and visited deaf schools in Christchurch and Auckland. She met Deaf Society of Canterbury Life Member Patty Still in Christchurch...
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    The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) is a state-supported boarding school for deaf and blind children established in 1885, in St. Augustine...
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    world's first bar to home a deaf leather organization. In 1989, a deaf chapter of the National Leather Association called “NLA: Deaf Chapter”, which eventually...
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  • Robert. Great Deaf Americans: The Second Edition. Rochester, NY: Deaf Life Press. pp. 118–124. Lang, Harry; Meath-Lang, Bonnie. Deaf Persons in the Arts...
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    2012, and the National Leather Association International Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. The LA&M received the International Deaf Leather Recognition...
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    The Nebraska School for the Deaf, or NSD, was a residential school for Deaf students in kindergarten through Grade Twelve at 3223 North 45th Street in...
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    atlas.thc.state.tx.us. Retrieved August 21, 2022. "Details - Deaf Smith County Historical Museum - Atlas Number 4200000200 - Atlas: Texas Historical Commission"...
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  • Gallaudet Eleven (category American deaf people)
    Eleven have been recognized in museum exhibits and other ceremonies. On April 11, 2017, the National Deaf Life Museum at Gallaudet University opened an...
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  • Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke (category Deaf politicians)
    Defeating Deafness, now known as Deafness Research UK. He retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election and was created a life peer as...
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  • the Deaf estimates that there are over 350,000 Deaf Canadians, but there is not an exact number since there has never been a formal census on Deaf Canadians...
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  • work at all. The quality of life for disabled individuals continued to improve, with the first U.S. school for teaching the deaf opening in 1817 in Hartford...
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  • Nipper Kabirriki (category Kakadu National Park)
    Badmardi Clan and was a Traditional Owner of Deaf Adder Gorge in the region. He spent much of his early life travelling around the Alligator Rivers region...
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  • the richness of life despite hearing problems. Prior to its initial theatrical release, this excursion into the unique world of Deaf communities in France...
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    the Deaf has a museum in honor of Betty S. Fine who was a prominent keeper of the historical artifacts in the museum. OSD is a member of the National Deaf...
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    Panhandle, and also passes through Amarillo. The freeway passes through Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Donley, and Wheeler Counties. As of...
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    Volta Laboratory and Bureau (category Deafness organizations in the United States)
    the Deaf in 1956 and then the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in 1999. The current building, a U.S. National Historic...
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    Ilya Kaminsky (redirect from Deaf Republic)
    professor. He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards. In 2019, the BBC named Kaminsky...
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  • Andrew Foster (educator) (category Educators of the deaf)
    (1925–1987) was an American pioneer of deaf education in several countries in Africa. In 1954, he became the first Deaf African American to earn a bachelor's...
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    Dummy Hoy (category Deaf baseball players)
    Cincinnati Reds and two Washington, D.C. franchises. Hoy is the most accomplished deaf player in MLB history, and is credited by some sources with causing the establishment...
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