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A society with an unusually high number of deaf people thrives for 200 years...Read more about the story here.
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What a milestone! Read more about him
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Wow, finally! Click to read more about how that happened.
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And not in a very good way. Teaching the Deaf to speak was forced on them, and sign became banned from classrooms for almost 100 years. See this video to understand more.
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A hearing linguist studied ASL and proved that it was a real language that had all the same features of spoken ones.
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Click here to read about what happened at Gallaudet in the 1980's, a turning point for ASL.
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Many high schools and colleges begin to offer ASL as a foreign language credit for hearing people. Popularity of ASL soars and continues to be in high demand.