4th diver. PEOPLE WHO OVERCAME DISABILITIES

WRITE A TEXT ON SOMEBODY WHO HAS OVERCOME A SERIOUS PROBLEM OR DISABILITY. HERE YOU HAVE SOME EXAMPLES. FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS.

1. INTRODUCE THE CHARACTER. NATIONALITY TIME, JOB (GENERAL.
2. WRITE ABOUT HIS/HER DISABILITY AND THE THINGS HE/SHE DID TO OVERCOME IT.
3. FINISH THE TEXT. WRITE A CONCLUSION.







Helen Keller ((1880-1968) became deaf blind before her second birthday. Despite this debilitating disability, she learned to read and write, and became the first deaf blind person to gain a bachelor degree. She campaigned on issues of social welfare, womens suffrage, disability rights and impressed many with her force of personality.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail." - Helen Keller

Beethoven For a musician to lose his hearing is the greatest possible misfortune. Yet, despite the inevitable frustration, it didn't stop Beethoven composing some of the most sublime pieces of music in the history of man.

Stephen Hawking - despite suffering from motor neurone disease, Hawking has helped popularise scientific concepts and make ground-breaking discoveries.

Malala Yousafzai (1997 )- Pakistani schoolgirl who defied threats of the Taliban to campaign for the right to education. She survived being shot in the head by the Taliban and has become a global advocate for human rights, womens rights and the right to education.