Edith Mansford Fitzgerald, who lived from 1877 to 1940, was a deaf American woman who invented a system to help deaf learners understand the proper placement of words in the construction of sentences. Her method became known as the Fitzgerald Key. According to the English Wikipedia lead, the Fitzgerald Key was used to teach students with hearing disabilities in three quarters of the schools in the United States. The lead gives no further biographical detail, so her training, career and later influence are left to deeper sources.
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Edith Mansford Fitzgerald (1877-1940) was a deaf American woman who invented a system for the deaf to learn proper placement of words in the construction of sentences.
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Her method, which was known as the 'Fitzgerald Key,' was used to teach those with hearing disabilities in three-quarters of the schools in the United States.
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