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Born blind at Ostend and then became deaf in early infancy. Orphaned at a young age, she was taken in by an impoverished grandmother. At age 20, was taken in and educated under the direction of Abbe Carton at the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind at Bruges, Belgium.

Born deaf at Akron, OH to a deaf couple. Entered the Ohio School for the Deaf at age 6, graduating in 1943. Went to Gallaudet College (B.A., 1947). Master's from the University of Tennessee (1957), second master's from California State University at Northridge (1968). Teacher at South Dakota, Tennessee, and Indiana Schools for the deaf before teaching in a California public school and then at Golden West College. Administered a deaf-blind program in Delaware, taught at Ohlone College, then administered a 4-state interpreter training program. Director of the Gallaudet College Regional Center at Ohlone College before her retirement. Co-author of Deaf Women: A Parade through the Decades. Married Roy Kay Holcomb (q.v.) in 1947. Took early retirement in 1985 due to health problems. Autobiography is The Sounds of Silence.

Born deaf at Edmunston, NB; first attended the John Tracy Clinic, then a year in a Sherbrooke, QC public school before moving to the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf. Dissatisfied with the Montreal School, she entered a mainstream program in North Hatley, QC and then graduated grades 11-12 in an Edmunston high school. Took and passed a lifeguard training program in 1988, working 3 summers at public and summer camp pools. Attended Gallaudet University 1991-1992, then St. Mary's University in Halifax, NS, where she graduated. Worked in various places as a residential counselor, deaf-blind intervenor, community resource worker and community development coordinator. In 2001, entered a social work degree program at Dalhousie University.

Deaf-blind; from Mifflinburg, PA. From 1939 to 1953, edited a quarterly newspaper called Then & Now for the Buffalo [NY?] Church of the Brethren, presumably with the help of his wife Adda; published a book of poetry about 1953.

Both deaf and blind by the time she completed regular high school. Chose to become a performer in a traveling one-woman play, giving monologues and playing the piano to audience acclaim. Later became a teacher at the Hadley School for the Blind. Autobiography is On Different Roads (1991).

Born deaf on a farm near Lemberg, SK; Saskatechwan School for the Deaf 1946-graduation 1959. Worked for a time as a seamstress until marrying Walter Manchul (deaf) in 1968. As Usher's Syndrome gradually robbed her of more and more sight, she became a certified literary Braille transcriber from about 1983 onward. She also did much quilting and other needlecraft despite her reduced vision.

Born deaf and blind; entered the Indiana School for the Deaf at age 10 in 1922. He received a personal tutor, Miss Newell, who succeeded in teaching him fingerspelling, Braille, and the printed alphabet. He stayed at the school until the superintendent announced, without explanation, in 1933 tht Liston would not be returning. Liston died of pneumonia four years later at age 25.

Born deaf at Chattanooga, TN; graduated from the Maryland School for the Deaf. B.S. (1976) and M.A. (1984) from Gallaudet College. Taught physical education, ASL, and English at various times at Gallaudet; also became an interpreter for deaf-blind people in 1988, continuing to interpret even after retiring from teaching in 1996.

Taught sign language and Braille classes; referral agent for deaf-blind persons in the San Francisco Bay area; taught classes at Ohlone College.