Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Spotlight On - Deaf Achievement - Marlee Matlin and Helen Keller

The names of Helen Keller and Marlee Matlin are world famous. Helen Keller was best known as the small blind and deaf girl whose life inspired the first game and the movie "The Miracle Worker." Marlee Matlin for the first time known as the deaf young actress of the show "Children of a Lesser God." However, despite differences in their situation, there are some similarities between the lives of these two exceptional women.

Helen Keller was born in 1880 inAlabama. Marlee Matlin was born in 1965 in Illinois. Apart from their deafness, which may possibly be similarities between them?

Both children were born visually impaired and hearing. At the age of eighteen months or nineteen years old, both girls suffered high fever, which resulted in the profound hearing loss and profound deafness and total blindness Marlee Helen. Both families declined to participate in their young daughters away from home. After visiting a number of residential buildings awayschools for the deaf, Marlee Matlin and integrated self-enrolled in classes close to home. After studying in a mental Helen, Keller kept his house and took twenty years Annie Sullivan, herself a visual impairment to give her first year of teaching Helen.

As young women, both attended college. Helen Keller was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor's degree programs. Both musicians were: Marlee Matlin current career is well documented,Helen Keller and her teacher and covered the first world-class circuits and then in vaudeville shows. Both women were dedicated advocates for the deaf awareness, deaf-blind and differently challenged people. Helen Keller spent much of his adult life exploring the world, working for a better education for the deaf and deaf-blind. Marlee Matlin is a spokesman for the National Institute captions. She has been instrumental in the adoption of a law that required alltelevisions 13 inches or larger chips that have built subtitles on. This has opened a much wider world for deaf viewers, and is a "godsend" for the hearing impaired.

And what about the differences between these two women? They are also remarkable.

There were no support services available from Helen Keller in his childhood. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were no independent or integrated classrooms for children with disabilities in schools. InHelen turned seven years, she was stupid and foolish behavior out of control. Perhaps his behavior does not improve, she would have remained uncultivated and imprisoned at home all his life. In the worst cases are sent to live in a shelter. A few weeks after Annie Sullivan arrived at the house Keller, Helen discovers the words and the fact that they have a meaning, and began learning sign language fingerspelled his first words. As an adult Helen is very difficult to travel around the worldhis teacher, seem to make their speeches and try to improve the lives of deaf and deaf-blind.

In seven years, Marlee Matlin was attending a summer camp, and appears as Dorothy in a school production of "The Wizard of Oz" with the deaf and hearing children. He has attended specialized courses that most of his academic skills made. Traveling is much easier than it was in 1900, and making appearances on "telepresence" is now common.Marlee Matlin successful career and many of its advocacy activities and performance can be found with a few clicks of the mouse.

These two women have led quite different lives but share a common goal of service to challenge people. Helen Keller and her teacher, and other pioneers paved the way as Marlee Matlin and others like her, who helped make such great strides in the education of deaf and deaf-blind.

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