PEOPLE
The 7th president of the NAD whose goal was to preserve ASL by filming different people signing. He is also known for his 14 minute speech titled "The Preservation of Sign Language"
George Veditz
The town that is home to Alice Cogswell, Gallaudet, and the American School for the Deaf.
Hartford, Connecticut.
The concept of deaf people using spoken language to communicate.
oralism
What are one of the goals or reasons for the creation of the NAD?
Created in response to the Milan Conference. While more people were forced to speak, the NAD wanted to fight for the use of ASL and representation of deaf people at the legal level.
AG Bell could not make the Milan Conference because he was recieving this award.
The Volta Prize
The student that Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet journeyed back to America to establish a school for the Deaf.
Laurent Clerc
The location of the first and only university that services primarily Deaf and Hard of Hearing people all over the world.
(Extra 2 points: Sign it!)
Washington, D.C.
Alexander Graham Bell believed this about the Deaf community
They were a contamination to the human race
They were a great calamity
They were a defective race
What are at least 2 demands of the students in the Deaf President Now movement?
1. Zinser replaced with Dr. I King Jordan
2. No reprisals (consequences for protesting)
3. 51% (majority) of the board be Deaf
4. Spillman resigns (the board chair)
The silver lining (the only good thing) that came out of Black Deaf segregated schools. This is just recently starting to be uncovered and researched. A dialect of American Sign Language.
Black American Sign Language
Andrew Foster
The location of the meeting place that resolved oralism being superior to that of sign language in the field of deaf education
Milan, Italy
American Sign Language is abbreviated as ASL. What is French Sign Language abbreviated as?
LSF
Define the Dark Ages of Deaf History
Signing was banned, consequences for signing were severe, learning turned to hours of speech therapy, medical experiments conducted on deaf people in hopes they would become hearing
Name and describe 2 techniques taught to deaf children to learn now to speak/lip read.
mirror, throat, candle, ear tube, touching musical instruments
The candidate that students at Gallaudet University were protesting to become the president after Elizabeth Zinser was selected.
Dr. I King Jordan
Home of the Braidwood Academy (the actual country).
Britain
Edward Miner Gallaudet asked _______ to sign a _______, in which congress approved and allowed for the establishment of the Columbia Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf, Blind and Dumb.
Abraham Lincoln, charter
3 impacts of the Milan Conference
1. deaf teachers fired
2. banning of ASL
3. punishments for signing (police and school)
4. hours spent focusing on learning how to speak instead of learning subjects (quality of deaf education decreased)
Plains Indian Sign Language
Langue des Signes Française
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
The current president of Gallaudet University.
Roberta Cordano
Martha's Vineyard can be found off the coast of this state.
Massachusetts
Why did George Veditz want to film signs?
What is the term for the counting of people in a certain location? Specifically, TH Gallaudet conducted this in Hartford, CT after interacting with Alice and found out 84 other Deaf people lived there.
Census
Chairman Spillman's reason for electing Zinser over Jordan.
Gallaudet University wasn't ready for a deaf person to lead them.