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Deaf artist paints hospital walls with child readers
Ginny Reese, deaf since infancy from whooping cough, spends a week at Middletown Hospital painting cartoons for the children’s ward. The 23 year old, self taught in art and lip reading, finds joy teaching and translating sound for youngsters and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown Hospital
Mickey Mouse
Ginny
Walter A. Reese
Alameda
Central Institute For the Deaf
St. Louis
Middletown High School
Western College For Women
Oxford