Talk:Juliette Gordon Low

Aller
Aller, Susan Bivin (2007). Juliette Low. Minneapolis: Lerner.

This book is used as a reference throughout the article, but it appears to be a grade-school level biography, thus not an appropriate source. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 07:35, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Deafness
Juliette Gordon Low was deaf, an important fact not directly mentioned in this article.

In her young adulthood Juliette Gordon Low suffered from chronic ear infections, and an experimental procedure left her with significantly impaired hearing in one ear. Then, on the day of her wedding, a well-wisher accidentally threw a grain of good-luck rice into Gordon Low's ear canal. When the doctor attempted to remove the grain, he accidentally ruptured Gordon Low's eardrum, causing her to lose all of her hearing in the other ear.

Keeping in mind her own disability, Juliette Gordon Low attempted to include girls of all abilities in her Girl Scouts. While the organization took the unfortunate tactic of sometimes creating separate troops for differently abled girls, their efforts toward inclusion differ from their brother organization even to this day. Gordon Low's Girl Scouts welcomed troop leaders with disabilities, and created manuals for activities and opportunities for disabled Scouts.

See: https://www.gallaudet.edu/tip/english-center/reading-(esl)/practice-exercises/juliette-low.html and other sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CaptAubrey (talk • contribs) 18:17, 2 March 2016 (UTC)