The Miracle worker is based on this person who was the first blind and deaf person to earn a degree in what?
The Miracle Worker (2000 film) The Miracle Worker is a 2000 biographical television film based on the 1959 play of the same title by William Gibson, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series "Playhouse 90". Gibson's original source material was "The Story of My Life", the 1902 autobiography of Helen Keller. The play was adapted for the screen twice before, in 1962 and 1979. The film is based on the life of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan's struggles to teach her.
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.