Many people faced with physical and mental challenges have shown wonders to the world and have created an impact worldwide that they serve as a role model to many.
For example, William Willard and his wife, both were deaf.
They moved together to Indianapolis and started the first educational institution for deaf people named Indianapolis School for the Deaf in the year 1843.
It was recognized officially only three years later.
Dr.
Frank Bowe assisted the United Nations to plan the International Year of Disabled Persons.
Ludwig Van Beethoven, the popular musician and composer, lost his ability to hear when he was quite young! Though he wanted to study music under Mozart, he was trained by Joseph Haydn as Mozart had expired.
He went on record saying that he was so ecstatic when he saw the audience applaud for his musical compositions during one of the public performances.
Laura Dewey Bridgman became deaf and mute due to scarlet fever at the tender age of two.
In 1837, she joined the Perkins School for the Deaf and Blind and with the help of the principal, Dr.
Howe, she learnt to live an independent life.
Helen Keller, similar to Laura Dewey Bridgman, ended up losing her vision and hearing on account of scarlet fever that she contracted when she was hardly 19 months old.
Laura Dewey Bridgman was a strong source of inspiration for her mother when she found out that her daughter was deaf.
Helen's mother sought educational advice from Alexander Graham Bell.
With the initiative taken by her mother, she joined Perkins Institute, met Anne Sullivan, who helped her to live an independent life in her own right.