The history of the Deaf in the United States

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  • The Connecticut Asylum for thevEducation of Deaf and Dumb Persons

    First school astiblishedin the untied states
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    American Sign Language became very popular

  • National Deaf-Mute College in Washington D.C>

    Abraham Lincoln signed a law.

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Helped to create first major oral school in the U.S., Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts, opened in 1867.

  • Sign Languauge was band in deaf schools

    Instead students were taught the oral method or reading of lips

  • National Association of the Deaf

    was created so that deaf people could fight for their language and to preserve American Sign Language.

  • Helen Keller is born.

  • telephone for Deaf

    two Deaf scientist adn inventors adapted teletypewritied to enable Deaf people to use the telephone

  • First sign language dictionary

  • Oral education

    oral education was the most popular in Deaf schools until the 1970s

  • First Tv shows with caption s

  • Cochlear implants

    The US food and Drug Administration approved

  • Americans with Disablities Act

    This required all tv shows to have captions

  • Video interpreting

    widely used

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