Deaf History

Following Deaf President Now (1988), which piece of legislation provided the deaf with greater communication, education, and employment opportunities by allowing for accessibility and accommodations?

• PL 94-142

• The Rehabilitation Act of 1973

• The Conference of Milan

• The Americans with Disabilities Act

Who was responsible for influencing the belief in early Christianity that deafness was a sign of God's anger for sinning parents?

• Thomas Braidwood

• St. Augustine

• Pedro Ponce De Leon

• Aristotle

Building off of the work of a benedictine monk from Spain, Juan Pablo de Bonet published the first book on teaching sign language using a manual alphabet. What year did he do this?

German teacher Samuel Heinicke opened an Oralist school in Leipzig where he taught deaf to be by:

• giving them jobs in factories

• teaching them sign language

• using drawings and pictures

• having them feel his throat

L'Epee was known as "The Father of the Deaf," what did he do?

• Healed a deaf man

• learned sign language from the deaf and made it systematic

• brought French sign language to America

• Taught deaf people to speak

TRUE OR FALSE: Martha's vineyard is famous for a naturally occurring community of signers that later influenced the development of ASL.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Explain the history and significance of the two men pictured here:

The time of the first school for the deaf opening in America until the rise of Oralism is known as:

• Enlightenment

• The Dark Ages of Deaf History

• The Golden Age of Deaf Education

• Deaf President Now

In 1913, who approached the NAD about making "The Preservation of Sign Language"?

• George Veditz

• Laurent Clerc

• Abbe Sicard

• Thomas Gallaudet

Known as the "father of ASL linguistics, what did William Stokoe accomplish in the 1960's?