"He's blind. He's not stupid, and he can do better work than this."
"He doesn't need self-esteem... He needs to know how to spell."
How does Ellen Baker Weihenmayer's fierce will influence her son's development?
I am woman....hear me roar.....
9 years ago
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She was not going to let her son become a "blind" boy with no possibilities in life and "doomed" to be and live as a sheltered blind boy in a blind school and only associating with other blind people and having limitations placed on him.I know how that is in my own life. My sister was born deaf and my parents did not want her limited to the deaf world dependant upon interperters and going to deaf schools and living in a deaf world. They researched and found oral deaf programs (such as what Alexander Graham Bell operated...his wife was deaf) and got my sister into those programs at 3 years of age. Then integrated her into regular schools to be with regular kids. She graduated from Brighton High School and worked for Utah Power. She learned to read lips and speak orally. Never did use the sign language. Helen Keller is a hero of mine. She had to have others sign into her hand because she could not read their lips because of being blind but then she spoke orally.
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