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ASL TIMELINE

Thomas gallaudet

Very beginning of ASL.

Schools for the Deaf.

Laurent Clerc

-In Paris 1755 Abbe Charles Michael De L'eppe was making his rounds. looking for lost souls in need of church.

-Went to a home to find 2 deaf girls.

-Abbe made finding a way to communicate with the girls at church an obstacle.

-Greek philosophers thought it was only possible to communicate through articulating sounds into words.

-Few teachers made use of the alphabet to render a spoken language visible.

-Epee began with traditional methods.

-Noticed the sisters along with other deaf people communicated though "gestures".

-The language of signs.

-Epee learned from deaf people so he could teach them.

-Opened a school in the 1760's, endrolled as many as 200 deaf students.

-At 14 Gallaudet entered Yale University.

-Graduated first in his class in 1805.

-Returned to Yale University in 1808 as a graduate student whereupon he obtained a masters of arts degree.

-Entered theological seminary at Andover in 1811.

-Became an ordained minister at the age of 27 years old.

-Traveled to france to learn another method of communication.

-In 1817 opened the first American deaf school in Hartford, Connecticut.

-Served as the principal of the school from 1817 until 1830.

-Resigned to devote time to his ministry and writing children books.

-Two sons followed in their fathers footsteps by becoming a episcopalian minister for the deaf.

-At the age of one, he fell out of a chair and suffered the loss of his sense of hearing.

-He always had the belief that he was born deaf, also without a sense of smell.

-At the age of twelve his uncle decided to take him to the Paris School for the Deaf.

-School was the first time he was introduced to sign language, also his first time meeting another deaf person.

-Laurent Clerc was the first deaf person to stand before congress, as well as the President of the United States.

-In 1817 the first American school for the deaf was founded.

-1818 the New York institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb was founded.

-1820 Pennsylvania school for the deaf is founded.

-First school supported by the state opens in Kentucky in 1823.

-In St. Louis Missouri, St Josephs the first catholic school for the deaf open.

DPN, NAD or any other organizations or eventa that influenced the history of ASL.

Asl and deafness currently

The importance of Abbe de l'eppe

Alexander Bell

The french connection.

-On March 1, 1988, the fully organized rally persuaded many Deaf students to join the Deaf President Now movement.

-The rally was first time that Deaf students learned the protest was against a hearing president, Dr.Zinser and for the struggle to get first Deaf president.

-On March 1, 1988, Deaf leaders gave speeches at a traveling rally: football field, elementary school, largest class room in the building, president’s house and statue of the first president of Gallaudet University.

-On Saturday and Sunday March 5th and 6th, Zinser, Jordan, Corson, and the board met at a hotel downtown for interviews.

-The president of the student body government, Greg Hilbok said that he “Wrote Zinser a letter asking her to withdraw her candidacy.”

-The Board of Trustees selected Dr. Zinser as hearing president. “So although the United States believed enough in Deaf people’ abilities to establishes Gallaudet University in 1864, prejudices and discrimination against Deaf and hard of hearing people persisted.”

-The students made a list of four demands: Dr. Zinser must resign and a Deaf president must be selected, Jane Spilman must step down as chairperson of the Board of Trustees, Deaf people must constitute a 51% majority on the Board, and no reprisals against any student or employee involved in the protest.

-Deaf students and other protesters worked together through night and blocked all entrances of Gallaudet University allowing only staff and faculty to enter.

-Deaf representatives, faculty, and staff had meeting with the board that lasted three hours, at the conclusion of the meeting Spilman told the group the four demands were rejected.

- A Deaf teacher shared support for the students and stepped in front of Spilman to tell that the board did not accept the students’ demands.

-A french man who was a very important influential teacher that had a major role in teaching the deaf community sign language.

-A french pionner teacher for deaf mutes.

-A philanthropic priest and inventor of the sign alphabet.

-Meeting the two deaf children persuaded L'Epee to do the research on a sign language for deaf mutes.

-Funded and set up the school in France.

-Invented the tellephone

-Began his carrer as a deaf educator.

-In 1872 opened a school in Boston that concitrated on oral methods of instruction.

-Found the volta bureau to promote oral based education for the deaf children.

-the Bell family was taking away the deaf identity.

-Today ASL is the fourth most spoken language in the U.S.

- The ASL system is the most comprehensive, complete, and expressive systems of signed language in the world today.

-The ASL system has allowed the gap of communication between the deaf community and the rest of the world to be bridged.

-Interest in sign language continues to grow with more and more people wanting to learn this unique form of communication.

-Many colleges, universities, churches and community centers across the United States offer sign language classes to better accommodate the ever-growing demand for the knowledge of sign language.

-American Sign Language has even been considered a foreign language due to the fact that is a visual and gestural language rather than an aural and oral language.

- ASL is starting to be referred to as a foreign language.

-The reason for this growing idea stems from colleges and universities recognizing ASL as a fulfillment for foreign language credits in many college degree programs.

-Gary Olsen, former Executive Director of the National Association of the Deaf, referred to this notion of ASL as a foreign language as “an American ground swell”

- Sign language classes are growing nationwide with increased demand for this “simplified” language.

-In the 1700's type of sign language called old french sign language.

-New style of signing was called old signed french.

-OSF was used in classrooms and formerly.

-OFSL was used more casually in daily life and with tasks.

-Laurent Cler met up with Thomas Gallaudet and invited him to the school in Paris to learn OSF.

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