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Jaime Recht (born 1965) is a deaf and legally blind marathon athlete with Usher Syndrome Type 1F.[1][2] Born in New York City to a hearing family,[3] she attended schools for the Deaf and grew up using ASL to communicate. When she was nine years old and the lights were dimmed at a movie theater, she noticed the first sign of Usher Syndrome - night blindness, which led to her diagnosis of Usher Syndrome.[1] She went on to graduate from Gallaudet University and works as a program analyst with the Federal Railroad Administration. Despite her limited vision and poor balance caused by the syndrome, she lead a very independent and athletic life[4] - regularly running on trails that she knows by memory and completing various marathons across the world, including Chicago, New York City, Berlin, and Boston.[1] For marathons in unfamiliar areas she runs with a guide, and runs independently on paths she knows. Her run in the Boston marathon was to support the Usher 1F Collaborative, a charity that sponsors research on Usher 1F. Despite being over 50, she has more residual vision than most people her age with Usher, because of the role of aerobic exercise in slowing vision loss.[2]
John Ten Broeck Tracy (26 June 1924 - June 2007) was the son of actor Spencer Tracy who founded the oralist John Tracy clinic in his name.[5][6][7]
John Tracy was born on 26 June 1924 in Milwaukee to Spencer and Louise Tracy.[8]
New York specialist suggested oralist methods[9]
father blamed an STD he had for causing John's deafness, although later in his life it was established that Usher Type I was the cause.[10]
Mother founded the oralist[11] John Tracy clinic[12]
Legally blind in later years, survived polio when he was six.[13]
Taught lipreading and speech, competed in sports[5]
family communicated with him by tracing letters on his back when he was blind; legally blind in the 1980's, completely blind by 1994[5]
Robert Tarango is a blind-deaf actor and the first blind-deaf actor to hold a lead role in a film, Feeling Through.[14][15][16]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Halpern, Amy (2021-09-13). "Meet eight Bethesda-area women who inspire through their achievements". Bethesda Magazine & Bethesda Beat. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marantz, Steve (2022-04-07). "Running a marathon to restore sight and sound to Jews affected by genetic disorder". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ "Jewish Deaf-Blind Community – Jewish Deaf Community Center". Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ Powers, Kristen (2021-05-07). "PHOTOS: Deafblind mom of 2 loves running marathons, traveling. 'I can do anything'". WJLA. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kendall, Mary Claire. "Spencer Tracy And His Son John". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ "John Tracy, muse for deaf clinic". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ Twitter (2007-06-17). "John Tracy, 82; deaf son of actor Spencer Tracy, clinic namesake". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ "Son of Spencer Tracy, John Tracy, dies at 82". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2007-06-17. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ Spradley, Thomas S.; Spradley, James P. (1985). Deaf Like Me. Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 978-0-930323-11-0.
- ↑ Curtis, James (2011). Spencer Tracy: A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26289-9.
- ↑ Solomon, Andrew (2012-11-13). Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-8310-6.
- ↑ Mahon, Patricia (2012). Mrs. Spencer Tracy and the John Tracy Clinic: A Tireless Drive to Educate Deaf Children. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4765-7.
- ↑ McCarthy, Dennis (26 October 2003). "Clinic's Namesake Gives Hope to Deaf". The Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Kaur, Jasmin (2021-04-15). "LI's Robert Tarango stars in the Oscar-nominated short 'Feeling Through'". Helen Keller Services. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ↑ "Breaking Barriers and Feeling Through: Meet the First Deafblind Actor to Star in a Film's Lead Role". BlindNewWorld. 2020-03-04. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ↑ Kilgannon, Corey (2020-03-07). "A Deaf-Blind Dishwasher Achieves His Childhood Dream: Movie Actor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-30.