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Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college and her1was to become a concert pianist or blues singer. Everything 2 when she was 20 years old. She became sick with what doctors 3 was typhoid fever(伤寒) and she almost died. Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine 4 her to become5 deaf. She could no longer hear the music which she had always 6.

Shirley would never give up playing the piano, 7she did decide to change8. She went to Gallaudet University and studied English. In 1964 Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for 9. She wanted to be 10 and work full time.

For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington, D. C. 11, in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor(宿舍监管员). Shirley supervised young women who12 in the university during the school year, She also taught English. Somehow she found time to13graduate school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In 1972, Shirley received her M. A. degree.

Always 14 a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf(NTID), which15 deaf and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training.

This amazing woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her Ph.D. She made history in 1992 when she received the highest degree in education from the University of Rochester in New York.