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George Veditz

Took on president Roosevelt to fight for the rights of deaf Americans to work for the government

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Traveled to France to learn how to educate the deaf

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Worked as a reverend, wanted to spread the word of God to the deaf

Alexander Graham Bell

Worked as a teacher of the deaf, taught children how to speak

Affirmation

positive- signing, freedom, identity, deaf culture, deaf pride.

SCL

semantic

after the Milan Conference what would happen if the students were caught signing

they were made to wear white bound gloves

Laurent Clerc

Taught sign language at the first school for the deaf in the us

Alexander Graham Bell

Believed deaf people should be kept apart

Alexander Graham Bell

Father oralism

Laurent Clerc

French Deaf Man - First Deaf teacher in U.S.

Robert Weitbrecht

Mad genius, inventor of the TTY

Resistance

Negative- themes; odium, abuse, oppression, language deprivation.

Alexander Graham Bell

Often seen as the boogeyman of dead culture

William stokoe

Once criticized by deaf people for his beliefs about sign language being a real language

William stokoe

Professor and linguist who studied sign language at Gallaudet university

George Veditz

The 7th president of the NAD

BCL

body

BPCL

body part

DPN

deaf president now

DCL

descriptive

motif

dominant idea

during early schools for the deaf (1890s) kids learned most from

each other

king jordan

first deaf president

ICL

instrumental