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Opal & The Secret Code Tells the True Story of a Deaf Girl Who Found Her Language

Opal & The Secret Code Tells the True Story of a Deaf Girl Who Found Her Language

Based on the life of a real Deaf woman from Oklahoma, this children’s book follows a young girl’s journey to ASL in the 1930s — and the language that changed everything for her. Opal Fleming grew up Deaf in 1930s Oklahoma, isolated in a world without a language she could fully access. That changed when...

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