new york city Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/new-york-city/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png new york city Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/new-york-city/ 32 32 Did you know the first woman to swim the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle, was deaf? https://deafniche.com/gertrudeederle/ Sat, 26 Mar 2016 02:43:56 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9022 Ederle broke 10 world records in 1926 Gertrude Ederle was the daughter of German immigrants and she was deaf from childhood due to measles. This didn’t stop her from swimming competitively! When she was only twelve years old, she set the world record for the 880 meter freestyle! After that, she participated in many competitions […]

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