IDENTIDADE INTERASSISTENCIAL: ESTUDO DE CASO HELEN KELLER

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Soares da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Helen Keller

The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim E. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Rigorous Study ◽  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Biographical scholarship provides a means by which to understand the past. Disability biography writes disabled people into historical narratives and cultural discourses, acknowledging power, action, and consequence. Disability biography also analyzes the role of ableism in shaping relationships, systems of power, and societal ideals. When written with skilled storytelling, rigorous study, nuance, and insight, disability biography enriches analyses of people living in the past. Disability biography makes clear the multiple ways by which individuals and communities labor, make kinship, persevere, and both resist and create social change. When using a disability analysis, biographies of disabled people (particularly people famous for their disability, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Helen Keller) reveal the relationality and historically embedded nature of disability. In an ableist world, such acts can be revolutionary.

AFB Helen Keller Seminar

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-37
Author(s):  
C. Michael Mellor
Keyword(s):  
Helen Keller

Extraordinary voices: Helen Keller, music and the limits of oralism

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Michael Accinno
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Vocal Production ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Voice Teacher ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Opera Singers

Abstract This article examines iconic American deafblind writer Helen Keller's entræ#169;e into musical culture, culminating in her studies with voice teacher Charles A. White. In 1909, Keller began weekly lessons with White, who deepened her understanding of breathing and vocal production. Keller routinely made the acquaintance of opera singers in the 1910s and the 1920s, including sopranos Georgette Leblanc and Minnie Saltzman-Stevens, and tenor Enrico Caruso. Guided by the cultural logic of oralism, Keller nurtured a lively interest in music throughout her life. Although a voice-centred world-view enhanced Keller's cultural standing among hearing Americans, it did little to promote the growth of a shared identity rooted in deaf or deafblind experience. The subsequent growth of Deaf culture challenges us to reconsider the limits of Keller's musical practices and to question anew her belief in the extraordinary power of the human voice.

scholarly journals Moda e artesanato na escola Helen Keller de Ribeirão Preto-SP

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Vitoria Guessi Da Silva ◽  
Juliana Bononi
Keyword(s):  
Helen Keller

O projeto “História, Memória e Cegueira: contribuições da Escola para Cegos Helen Keller (1954-1990) de Ribeirão Preto à educação”, aprovado pela FAPESP nº 2017q23240-8, coordenado pela Profa. Dra. Daniela Leal e outros docentes do Centro Universitário Moura Lacerda, recebeu um grande acervo fotográfico, onde algumas imagens são de bazares realizados na década de 60, com produtos de moda e artesanato desenvolvidos pelos alunos da escola. O presente projeto de pesquisa exploratória descritiva e qualitativa, tem o objetivo de descrever os detalhes das fotos recebidas, relatando os trabalhos de moda e artesanato desenvolvidos, por meio de observação assistemática passiva, na intenção de trazer a luz essa parte da história de educação inclusiva de nossa cidade. Esse estudo trouxe a possibilidade de conhecer o universo do deficiente visual, em especial dos alunos da Escola Hellen Keller. Nas imagens foi possível observar vários produtos desenvolvidos e comercializados como; roupas (entre saias, blusa e vestidos), bolsas, panos de prato, aventais, peças em crochê e tricô, bonecos e árvore decorativa para o natal, entre outros. A escola motivava as capacidades manuais na intenção de criar oportunidades, tanto para a busca do mercado de trabalho, quanto para inclusão social, desde a década de 60. O levantamento bibliográfico e toda a pesquisa contribuíram para entender as pessoas com deficiência visual, sua forma de pensar, de agir e se desenvolver, e que o mesmo tem capacidade de aprender e se tornar independente, desde que lhe seja dado oportunidade.

Reading with the Fingers: Tactile Signs and the Possibilities for a Language of Touch

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Writing Systems ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Blind Children ◽  
The Us ◽  
Literate Culture ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Reading System ◽  
The Way ◽  
Accidental Discovery

The accidental discovery in 1786 by Valentin Haüy that embossed script could be read by the fingers paved the way for the concrete development of a fully-fledged haptic reading system. The story of tactile writing systems is spurred in part by shame, a means to include the blind in literate culture. Haüy’s ‘An Essay on the Education of Blind Children’ of 1786 summarized his purpose: “to teach the blind reading, by the assistance of books, where the letters are rendered palpable by their elevation above the surface of the paper” (1894:9). Here the evolution of competing writing systems and their role in education and access to literature and mathematics is detailed, as Braille’s system spread to other countries including Britain and the US, and was famously endorsed by Helen Keller whose own remarkable story of reading and communicating through the skin is so compelling.

Meningitis—What Is It?

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Janet R. Gilsdorf
Keyword(s):  
Cerebrospinal Fluid ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Pathologic Examination ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Clinical Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Almost All

Before the advent of antibiotics, meningitis was a dreadful infection by any standard; many of its victims were young children, and almost all died, succumbing to the disease from days to six weeks, or sometimes longer, after the onset of their illness. Incredibly, patients occasionally survived but were often left with varying degrees of neurologic damage. Before the first spinal tap, the diagnosis of meningitis was based on clinical signs and symptoms and could be confirmed only by pathologic examination of the brains of deceased patients during an autopsy. Since the advent of the spinal tap, the diagnosis of meningitis rests on examination of the cerebrospinal fluid. Treatment of meningitis depends on which bacteria cause the infection. Helen Keller may be a famous surviving victim of this disease.

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