Teachers, scholars and advocates of the Deaf community who worked for sign language, Deaf culture and the education of Deaf students. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the person a Deaf or deaf educator, scholar or professor of Deaf studies or American Sign Language. It excludes hearing educators who founded methods for deaf instruction, who are placed with the method founders. Their work shaped bilingual education and recognition of sign languages in schools.
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Ben Bahan (Wikipedia)
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Benjamin James Bahan is a professor of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University and a member of the deaf community.
Laurene Simms (Wikipedia)
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Dr. Laurene Simms is a Deaf American educator and advocate.
Paddy Ladd (Wikipedia)
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Paddy Ladd (born 11 February 1952) is an English deaf scholar, author, activist and researcher of deaf culture.
Elizabeth Peet (Wikipedia)
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Elizabeth Peet (March 26, 1874, June 29, 1961) was an American educator of the deaf who taught at Gallaudet University for more than fifty years.
Samuel Thomas Greene (Wikipedia)
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Samuel Thomas Greene (June 11, 1843, February 17, 1890) was a Deaf American educator and Ontario's first Deaf teacher in 1870 at the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, which later changed to Sir James Whitney School of the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
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