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Charles Michel de l'eppe
In 1771 Charles Michel de l'eppe founded the first free public school for the deaf. -
Thomas Gallaudet & Alice Cogswell
They met in 1814, Alice was his 9 year old neighbor. Thomas saw her playin alone and asked the other kids why, they said she could not hear, so he went a played with her to cheer her up. Gallaudet wanted to teach her how to read and write so he did for many years, she was his first deaf student. The picture along with this is a statue of them, it can be found at Gallaudet Univetsity. -
Gallaudet Goes to Europe
Thomas Gallaudet traveled to Europe in 1815 to study the methods of education for the deaf in England. Abbe Sicard invited Gallaudet to his school to learn and after a couple months there he left to go back to America with a deaf teacher named Laurent Clerc. -
America's School for the Deaf
In 1817 Thomas Gallaudet and Lauren Clerc founded The American School for the Deaf. There sign language was used for deaf education. Lauren Clerc was the teacher and used old French sign language to help develop American sign language. ( picture of the school in 1817) -
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Deaf Schools
During 1818-1839 5 more schools for the deaf were open.
1818 – New York School for the Deaf established
1820 – Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
1823 – Kentucky School for the Deaf
1829 – Ohio School for the Deaf
1839 – Virginia School for the Deaf
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Gallaudet University
In 1864 Gallaudet University (then The National Deaf-Mute College) was founded by Edward Gallaudet, he was the first president of the institution and fluent in ASL himself. -
National Associatone of the Deaf
The NAD was founded in response to the Milan resolution and it (NAD) gains support. The NAD was helpful in keeping sign language and manual education alive. -
William "Dummy" Hoy
William was a deaf baseball player in the 1880s', he is credited by some historians for influencing baseballs use of hand signals. -
Football
in 1894 the deaf society contributed to football by creating the huddle, they created the football huddle that way the other teams couldn't read their hands across the field and now what play they were gonna do. -
Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard was an island with a high deaf population. There sign language was openly used and accepted, deaf children went to school longer than hearing children, which resulted in better literacy rates for deaf children. In short it was a deaf utopia but recently it's deaf population has declined. The last deaf native passed away in the 1950s. -
The Book
In 1960 William Stoke writes the first linguistic and defense of ASL as a language. -
A Phone
In 1964 Robert Weitbrecht, who is deaf, invents the teletypewriter which allows deaf people to use phone lines to call each other and type out their conversations. -
Deaf President Now Movement
In 1988 a hearing person was chosen as the 7th president of Gallaudet University. People of the deaf community weren't happy they protested for they wanted a deaf president for their deaf university. By this time many people who are deaf had degrees and the ability to run the school. For a week they protested and at the end of the week they had won and all their demands met. -
Captions
The Federal Communications Commission released new captioning rules for the broadcast and cable television industry.These new rules now require 100% of cable television to be captioned within eight years, and require real-time captioning for many local news program. -
Switched At Birth
Switched at birth is a tv show that focuses on 2 girls switched at birth, one of these girls becomes deaf due to a disease. So the show is heavily influenced by sign language it has scenes only in ASL, is the first show to have deaf or hard of hearing regulars, and has episodes only in ASL for those that don't know the language. This was a first for the deaf community to be highly represented in a tv show appropriately. -
