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Also Known As impaired hearing • hearing loss • hearing impairment

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Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe
American educator
Laura Bridgman, 1878.
Laura Dewey Bridgman
American educator
Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan
American educator
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Sarah Fuller
American educator
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Samuel Heinicke
German educator
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Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
French physician
Caroline Yale, 1927.
Caroline Yale
American educator
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Harriet Burbank Rogers
American educator
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Mary Garrett
American educator
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Emma Garrett
American educator
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Juan Pablo Bonet
Spanish educator
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Roch-Ambroise Cucurron, Abbé Sicard
French abbot
Ponce de León, Pedro
Pedro Ponce de León
Spanish Benedictine monk
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Ivan Karlovich Arnold
Russian artist and educator
Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell with white hair and beard, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking directly at the camera.
Alexander Graham Bell
British-American inventor
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John Bulwer
English physician, author, and educator
A black-and-white photograph of Deafblind activist Helen Keller in an evening gown.
Helen Keller
American author and educator

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