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  • It is Na-La'ga'at (Please Do Touch) where the conference was held; an unprecedented concept of a theater and restaurant run entirely by blind-deaf people who act, interact, and bring people into their world in an astounding reversal of roles.

    Dahlia Scheindlin: Israel: Old or Young? 2010

  • It is Na-La'ga'at (Please Do Touch) where the conference was held; an unprecedented concept of a theater and restaurant run entirely by blind-deaf people who act, interact, and bring people into their world in an astounding reversal of roles.

    Dahlia Scheindlin: Israel: Old or Young? Dahlia Scheindlin 2010

  • An awareness of "the gaze" exists throughout the book, and though it is primarily a nondisabled gaze upon the body and actions of a blind-deaf woman, as a disabled woman myself I find this inextricably intertwined with the familiar male gaze of feminist theory and critique.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007

  • An awareness of "the gaze" exists throughout the book, and though it is primarily a nondisabled gaze upon the body and actions of a blind-deaf woman, as a disabled woman myself I find this inextricably intertwined with the familiar male gaze of feminist theory and critique.

    Blind Rage and the legacy of Helen Keller Kay Olson 2006

  • For this excellent publication, and still more for his widespread and munificent charity to the blind-deaf, and particularly to the deaf and dumb and blind of this country, Mr. Wade's name deserves to be forever enshrined in the hearts of this doubly and trebly afflicted class.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Whilst the normal child discovers the world through the five senses, the world must be brought to the blind-deaf child and imparted by the teacher through the sense of touch.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • The mind of a blind-deaf child does not differ from that of a normal child; given the same opportunity, it will develop in the same way.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • The knowledge by the public that the education of the blind-deaf is by no means the difficult task commonly believed, and the further knowledge of the number of those who have been educated and of their advanced position in mental attainments, will do much, it is contended by the author of the monograph, to advance the interests and the happiness of the blind-deaf.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Of these 2772 are blind-deaf, 37,426 are totally and 51,861 partially deaf; 51,871 became deaf under the age of 20 and 37,416 in adult life; 46,915 are males and 42,372 females;

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • His success convinced him that language can be conveyed through type to the mind of the blind-deaf child, who, before education, is in the state of the baby who has not learned to prattle; indeed, is in a much worse state, for the brain has grown in years without natural nourishment.

    The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

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