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What community had a disproportionate number of deaf people due to genetics, which resulted in everyone signing?
Martha's Vineyard
President who signed a grant for Deaf Higher Education
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first Deaf man who came to America to teach and help establish "the school"
Who is Laurent Clerc?
After the 1880's deaf children caught signing were
punished
Where did Clerc and Gallaudet decide to build the first school for the Deaf?
Hartford, Conneticuit
The first stop Thomas Gallaudet made on his journey to find deaf education
England
The year the first school for the Deaf opened.
What is 1817?
Hearing man opposed to sign language who had a Deaf wife and mother
Who is Alexander Graham Bell or A.G.B.?
The reason Thomas Gallaudet traveled to Europe
Alice Cogswell's father hired him to bring education and language back to America for Alice
The name of the school in France
The royal school for the deaf- mutes
What is the current name of the first Deaf school in America?
The American School for the Deaf
The majority of attendees of the Milan Conference were
What is hearing?
The first students to attend the American school for the deaf
Alice Cogswell
The kids from marthas vineyard
The first college for the deaf and hard of hearing
Gallaudet university
The event that happened in 1880. changing ASL for almost one hundred years
What is the Milan Conference?
Oralism refers to teaching
What is speech and lip reading?
The young deaf girl who inspired Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet to devote his life to educating the deaf
Alice Cogswell
"The Father of Deaf Education"
Thomas Gallaudet
After England, Thomas went...
to Paris, France
The man who established the first and only Deaf University
Edward Minor Gallaudet
The percentage of ASL that is influenced by French sign language
What is 60% French?
When Gallaudet university was established
1864
The definition of eugenics
The three things that had an influence on Modern ASL
What is:
1. French Sign Language
2. Martha's vineyard sign language
3. Home signs