Bringing Words to the Deaf

How do deaf people often communicate with family and friends?

• speaking

• sign language

• listening

• morse code

What is used in sign language?

• hand shapes

• body movements

• facial expressions

• all of the above

Who brought sign language to America?

• Alice Cogswell

• Laurent Clerc

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

What did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet study to become?

• a pastor

• a teacher

• a doctor

• a lawyer

Where did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet travel to visit schools for the deaf?

• Canada and America

• Japan and Korea

• England and France

• Australia and New Zealand

What were the teachers overseas using to communicate with their students?

• signs

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• songs

• Latin letters

What was Laurent Clerc's job?

• lawyer

• doctor

• teacher

• pastor

What did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc do together?

• travelled the world

• invented Braille

• went to the Olympics

• opened a school for the deaf

In what year did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc open their school for the deaf?

• 1718

• 1807

• 1817

• 1870

The school continues to educate deaf children today.

• true

• false