ASL: Through Deaf Eyes
Alexander Graham Bell:
-Scottish immigrant worked at a day school in Boston, Massachusetts • taught using the oral/speech method • married his former deaf student Mabel Hubbard • believed deaf people were lower class • believed deafness was 100% hereditary, therefore deaf should not intermarry
Gallaudet University:
1864 Lincoln signs a bill for the first Deaf College
Deaf President Now 1988
A full week of protest and boycott by students who wanted a Deaf president at Gallaudet University • Four demands: 1) 51% Deaf Board 2) Deaf President 3) Resignation of the current chair 4) No reprisals, no negative action taken against students involved
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet:
Alice Cogswell's father sent THG to Europe to learn a way to teach deaf students 1817 established first school for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut using ASL
William Stokoe:
English professor at Gallaudet University • Secured ASL as an official language with his team of linguists • 1965 created the first ASL dictionary
National Association of the Deaf
Established in 1880 • Organization that champions Deaf rights
Laurent Clerc:
First Deaf teacher from France helped establish first Deaf school with THG
Eugenics
Ideology of planned breeding to wipe out the defective race • First implemented in USA during the early 1900's • Supported by: Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler • Origins: Greek terminology meaning good or well and genes • Term coined by Sir Francis Galton (Darwin's cousin) after reading Charles Darwin's Origins of Species
Cultural and Social Customs:
Making connections, shared information about one another
Cochlear Implant
Mechanical device surgically implanted into the cochlea in the brain • Sends electrical impulses directly to the auditory nerve • Implant approximately 25 channels, natural cochlea has millions of hair cells
International Congress on the Education of the Deaf Conference:
Milan, Italy in 1880 • 5 Americans attended • Oral method won out over ASL as official teaching method
George W. Veditz:
Seventh president of the NAD • Campaigned for Deaf rights • 1910 began recording ASL in films
TTY:
Teletypewriter • 1964 created by Robert Weitbrecht
Technological College for the Deaf
cal College for the Deaf • 1968 Rochester, New York
