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Deaf culture timeline
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samuel heincke
he established schools that taught deaf children how to communicate using sounds of the throat -
Roch Ambroise
Roch was an educator of the deaf at a school and eventually became a headmaster at a deaf school in Paris. -
Deaf- Mute school
the first deaf mute public school was founded in france -
the bolling family
the first family to try and make a deaf and dumb school in the colonies -
clerc gallaudet
Laurent Clerc and Thomas Gallaudet opened the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf -
NDMC
Abraham Lincoln signed a bill creating the national deaf and mute college -
edward gallaudet
he helped start the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Blind in Washington, DC, which later became Gallaudet University. -
Edward Galluadet
he held a school for the deaf abnd blind which later became Galluadet university -
deaf president
Gallaudet University was shut down by student protesters who refused to have a hearing president rather than a Deaf leader for their institution. As a result I. King Jordan became the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University. -
Chochlear implants
a device surgically implanted device that allows deaf people to hear sound in both ears.