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the first free school for the deaf in the world in Paris. By 1870, there are over 200 schools for the deaf founded by people who learned from Epee or his successor, Sicard, and over 500 deaf teachers of the deaf in Europe and America.
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and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons opens. It is later renamed American School for the Deaf.
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Co-inventor Amos Kendall invests in Colombia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. Today the school is known as Gallaudet University.
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A county in Texas, national brands of peanut butter, pacake, waffle mix and biscuit mix are named after him. His picture is printed on the Republic of Texas' five dollar bill.
Tombstone reads 'So valiant and trustworthy was he that all titles sink into insignificance before the simple name of 'Deaf' Smith.' -
Uses money from Volta Prize to fund establishment of a library on deafness. By 1895 it contained over 50,000 books.
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Decides that oral instruction is superior to manual instruction for deaf children. The decision has lasting effects on deaf education in America and Europe.
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ordained as a priest. He establishes an Episcopalian congregation for the deaf.
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Provided deaf men with life insurance, asinsurance agencies of the time assumed deaf people to be accident-prone and to have shorter life spans.
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by deaf individuals. After several years of lobbying and surveys of the safe driving records of deaf people, most bans are lifted.
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Deaf workers are badly affected as the few jobs available go to hearing candidates.
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After the stigma of 'advertising a defect' faded. The decreasing size and increasing efficiency of hearing aids contributed to the increase in usage.
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Deaf people broke production records on the home front. Others snuck into the military and served throughout the war.
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to win the Mason-Dixon Conference championship. The 5-man basketball team goes from 8th seed of 8 teams to win the M-D basketball tournament and all five players are chosen for the ALl Start team. Marvin Marshall, at 126 pounds, takes second in the Amateur Athletic Union's Washington DC boxing competition.
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for having a Gallaudet professor lipread Queen Elizabeth's conversation at a football game. Gallaudet's president later announces that this sort of lipreading is not acceptable.
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and expanded to television in 1962. By 1970, the organization spent over $3 million per year.
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including the Council of Organizations Serving the Deaf, the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Professional Rehabilitation Workers Among the Deaf, and Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc.
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allows deaf couple to adopt foster child
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Deaf associations begin adding deaf board members, protests over rights take place, awareness inititatives are founded.
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Phyllis French as Sarah Norman in 'Children of a Lesser God.' Ran for 887 performances.
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Marlee Matlin as Sarah Norman in 'Children of a Lesser God' screenplay.
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Students, faculty and staff at Gallaudet University shut down the school in protest of the selection of a hearing president by the Board of Trustees. After 8 days of rallies and intense media coverage, Dr. I. King Jordan is appointed president.
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allowing deaf people to use telephones.
