The Miracle worker is based on this person who was the first blind and deaf person to earn a degree in what?
Helen Keller Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film "The Miracle Worker". Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Simon Hayhoe Simon Hayhoe wrote the monographs: "Blind Visitor Experiences at Art Museums", which features a study of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, its teachers, and its visitors who are blind; "Grounded Theory and Disability Studies" on the application of grounded theory in his study of blindness; "Arts, Culture and Blindness" on social and cultural factors affecting the arts education of blind adults and school children; and "Philosophy as Disability & Exclusion" and "God, Money and Politics", the first books on the history of English education for the blind in England since Illingworth's "History of the Education of the Blind" in 1910. These and previous works on this topic have been cited in papers on subjects such as perceptual psychology and human geography.