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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 ...
S. List of people with schizophrenia. List of stutterers. Categories: People with disabilities. Disability-related lists. Lists of people by physical attribute. Lists of people by medical condition.
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 disabilities. [ 4]
This is a list of people with Down syndrome, a condition also known as Down's syndrome or trisomy 21. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. [1] It is typically associated with developmental delays, characteristic physical features, and mild to moderate intellectual disability ...
Octavia E. Butler. Mel B (born 1975), English singer ( Spice Girls) Abhishek Bachchan (born 1976), Indian Bollywood actor. [9] Robert Ballard (born 1942), deep sea explorer [10] Ann Bancroft (born 1955), American arctic explorer. [11] Tanya Bardsley (born 1981), English model and reality television personality.
In 2013, Girma joined Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) in Berkeley, California as a Skadden Fellow. She worked there from 2015 to 2016 as a staff attorney, working on behalf of people with disabilities. [4] [3] Girma says she became a lawyer in part to help increase access to books and other digital information for persons with disabilities. [12]
O. Corbett O'Toole – disability rights activist and author in Berkeley, California; established the National Disabled Women's Educational Equity Project. Mary Jane Owen – disability rights activist, philosopher, policy expert and writer who has lived and worked in Washington, D.C. since 1979.
Occupation. Activist. Known for. Activism for individuals with disabilities. Kitty Cone (April 7, 1944 – March 21, 2015) was an American disability rights activist. [1] She had muscular dystrophy. [2] She moved to the California Bay Area in 1972, and began working as a community organizer for the disability rights movement in 1974.