History
The first school for the advanced education of the Deaf and hard-of hearing.
What is Gallaudet University?
The form of sign language used in the United States.
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
Plays Emmett in the show Switched at Birth.
Who is Sean Berdy?
The three co-founders of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, now known as American School for the Deaf.
Who are Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Laurent Clerc, and Mason Cogswell?
What is tapping a person on the shoulder or waving?
1864.
What year was Gallaudet University Founded?
Residential schooling.
What are Deaf schools?
Won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut role in Children of a Lesser God.
Who is Marlee Matlin.
Pushed oralism to be the main form of education and communication for Deaf and hard-of-hearing children. He also invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
A small electronic device that electrically stimulates the cochlear nerve.
What are cochlear implants?
The protests of students, faculties, and others at Gallaudet University in 1988 to fight for a Deaf president for the University.
What is the Deaf President Now Movement?
Mainstreamed schooling.
What are public schools?
Creator of Silent News, the newspaper of the Deaf Community.
Who is Julius Wiggins.
The first Deaf president of Gallaudet University following the Deaf President Now Movement.
Who is I. King Jordan?
Organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States.
What is the National Association of the Deaf?
1817.
What year was Hartford Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb founded?
The most dominant cultural pattern in the Deaf community.
What is collectivism?
The first deaf major league baseball player.
Who is Dummy Hoy?
The young deaf girl that inspired Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet to spend his life helping educate the Deaf.
Who is Alice Cogswell?
Form of Sign Language that American Sign Language is derived from?
What is French Sign Language?
Legislation in 1990 that prohibited discrimination based on disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Deaf individuals who are proud of their Deaf identify, Deaf culture, and Deaf community and not being ashamed of one’s deafness and using ASL as a primary communication mode.
What is Deaf Pride?
Winner of America's Next Top Model in 2015.
Who is Nyle DiMarco?
Spearheaded the "Preservation of Sign Language" project for the National Association of the Deaf.
Who is George W. Veditz?
Discrimination and/or prejudice based on the language an individual uses, also known as Audism.
What is Linguicism?