Influential Deaf People
The first Deaf actor to win an Oscar in 1987.
Who is Marlee Matlin?
The town where the French Deaf Institute resides.
What is Paris, France?
What piece of technology was created to help deaf people but ended up benefitting hearing people?
What is the telephone?
The Milan Conference occurred in this year, jumpstarting the Dark Ages of Deaf history.
What is 1880?
The first Deaf person to win both, America's Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars.
Who is Nyle DiMarco?
How did Laurent Clerc became deaf?
What is falling into a fireplace?
What was the Teletypewriter (TTY)?
Out of the 164 delegates at the Milan Conference, this number of Deaf people attended.
What is three?
French man responsible for the creation of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut in 1817.
Who was Laurent Clerc?
Who was the Deaf man that Laurent Clerc learned from at the National Institute for Deaf Youths?
Who was Abbé Sicard?
This technology is the subject of mass debate within the Deaf community.
What is the Cochlear Implant?
This famous hearing person advocated for the separation of deaf individuals in his book "Upon the Foundation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race."
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
The first Deaf president of Gallaudet University.
Who is I. King Jordan?
Which Deaf man created the National Institute for Deaf Youths?
Who was Abbé de l'Epée?
Beginning in this year, all English language programming must have the option of Closed Captioning.
What is 2006?
How many years did the Dark Ages last?