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Deaf Education in the United States

By Signing_Meggs

  • First school to open its doors to Deaf students

    The first school to teach Deaf students was opened in Hartford Connecticut.

  • Life beyond high school for Deaf students

    Gallaudet University (formerly known as the Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb) was founded

  • Kansas School for the Deaf

    The Kansas School for the Deaf was founded

  • Abraham Lincoln makes Gallaudet official

    Abraham Lincoln signed an Act into Congress making Gallaudet (re-named The National Deaf Mute College) and official university and the ability to awards college degrees

  • First woman graduates from Gallaudet

    Agatha Hanson not only is the first Deaf woman to graduate from Gallaudet, but she was also valivictorian

  • First Deaf medical degree

    Edwin Nies is the first Deaf person to graduate with a Doctoral of Dental Science degree.

  • ASL is presented as a real language

    Stoke researched and wrote about American Sign Language being lingustically its own language.

  • NTID

    The National Technical Institute of the Deaf was funded and established in Rochester, New York on the campus of RIT.

  • Deaf President Now!

    A protest from students at Gallaudet University started demanding they have a Deaf president for their university.

  • First Deaf President at Gallaudet Univeristy

    I King Jordan was appointed as the first Deaf president of a univsersity.

  • Deaf Studies

    Enough time and history has passed that Deaf Studies is now offered as a degree from Gallaudet University