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Facts

Also Known As hearing impairment • hearing loss • impaired hearing

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Key People

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
Sarah Fuller
American educator
Samuel Heinicke
German educator
Caroline Yale, 1927.
Caroline Yale
American educator
Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
French physician
Harriet Burbank Rogers
American educator
Juan Pablo Bonet
Spanish educator
Ponce de León, Pedro
Pedro Ponce de León
Spanish Benedictine monk
Ivan Karlovich Arnold
Russian artist and educator
Emma Garrett
American educator
Mary Garrett
American educator
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
John Bulwer
English physician, author, and educator
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
American author and educator

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