Millicent Simmonds, 17, never saw her language, American Sign Language, on screen. "I grew up just thinking that this was normal," she told Seventeen. Millicent's mother, Emily, decided she would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simmonds, who will star as Keller, is in fact a distant cousin of the author and disability rights advocate. Set during the early ...