Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts of America. She became deaf at age 25. I can’t seem to find out weather or not she learned sign language as a result
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Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts of America. She became deaf at age 25. I can’t seem to find out weather or not she learned sign language as a result
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At the age of 26, she married William Mackay Low,[note 1] the son of a wealthy cotton merchant in Savannah and England. His mother was a native of Savannah, Georgia. Their wedding took place on December 21, 1886, which happened to be her parents’ 29th wedding anniversary. A grain of rice thrown at the wedding became lodged in Juliette’s good ear. When it was removed, her ear drum was punctured and became infected, causing her to become completely deaf in that ear. Her hearing was limited for the rest of her life, so she learnt Sign Language.