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Sophia Alcorn
Sophia Kindrick Alcorn (August 3, 1883 – November 28, 1967) an educator at was best known for inventing the Tadoma method of communication with people who are deaf and blind. She was a strong advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and upon retiring from her long career in teaching, she worked with the American Foundation for the Blind.
== Background ==
Sophia Kindrick Alcorn was born the youngest of seven children of James Walker and Sophie Ann (Kindrick) Alcorn in Stanford, Kentucky, on August 3, 1883.〔Kleber, pp. 10–11〕 Annie Alcorn was the eldest of her siblings, marrying in November 1899 James N. Saunders who practiced law in her father's office. Her only brother, Kindrick Sommers Alcorn (1880–1966) graduated from Stanford Male Academy and then nearby Centre College, getting his law degree from the University of Virginia. He practiced law with his father and became a popular circuit judge from the 1930s-50s.
Alcorn attended Ward Seminary (now Belmont University) in Nashville, Tennessee and then went on to receive training in teaching the deaf at Clark School in Northampton, Massachusetts.〔 She earned her M.A. degree from Wayne University in Detroit, Michigan.〔 There she assisted in training teachers and served as a principal in the deaf school system.〔
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