Deaf History, Literature and Arts Timeline

By Justin Lawrence Baker
  • 1500

    Deaf Poetry

    all throughout deaf history
  • 1500

    Deaf Jokes

    all throughout deaf history

  • Erastus “Deaf” Smith

  • Laura Redden Searing

  • Douglas Tilden

  • Cadwallader Washburn

  • Laurent Clerc

  • Milan Conference

  • NAD

  • TTY

    late 1900s

  • LeRoy Colombo

  • Deaf Clubs

    more recent 1950 to the present

  • 1973 Disabled Gain Right to Equal Access

  • Cochlear Implant

  • Closed Captioning

    late 1900s

  • DPN

  • Personal FM system

    1990-2017

  • Instant messaging

    late 90s

  • Deaf socials

    more current

  • NOT DEAF ENOUGH