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181:. His parents were a teacher and a hardware store merchant. He was born with normal senses, but lost his sight after a bacterial infection when he was six years old. He spent the next four years at home, where his education came from his parents reading and from the radio. In 1934 he entered the Waring School in Cleveland, where he learned
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165:(June 21, 1923 – February 19, 1979) was an American educator and school administrator. Blind at age six and deaf by age twenty, Kinney was the third deafblind person in the United States to earn a college degree. Kinney published four volumes of poetry and was president of the
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185:. He passed second, third, and fifth grade in his first winter at the school. Kinney returned to mainstream schooling the following year at age twelve. His parents read lessons to him in the evenings and he completed assignments with a portable typewriter.
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