A Voice for the Deaf & the Kendal Sparrow

Barbara Luetke

Barbara Luetke recently retired after 10 years as the Outreach & Literacy Coordinator at the Northwest School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children and decades more in the field. She's written a number of textbooks in that field. Her latest book is an historical novel, The Kendal Sparrow about Elizabeth Fletcher, an early Quaker teacher & activist in an century that did not empower 15-year old females to speak in public, especially as equal with male preachers.

A PDF transcript of this interview is available here.

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A Voice for the Deaf & the Kendal Sparrow
BONUS: Power of Alternative Languages
Deafness
Hearing
Education
Hard of hearing
ASL
Signing
Communication
Quaker
Women
Equality
Theology
Sexism
Elizabeth Fletcher
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