ASL History Flashcards
1760-1771 (hearing) created first deaf community (France); opened first school for deaf
Michelle de L’Epee
1817 First school of deaf in hartford CT
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
1864 Lincoln established
Gallaudet University named after Thomas Gallaudet
First president of Gallaudet University
Edward Minner Gallaudet
1760s Founded fist PUBLIC school for deaf
de L’Epee
Created first deaf community
de L’Epee
came along side the deaf to finalize FSL
de L’Epee
1500s Proposed deaf could be taught to understand written symbols
Girolamo Gardano (Italian)
1555 Oral education of deaf children
Pedro Ponce de Leon
1620 wrote first book exclusively for the deaf
Juan Pablo Bonet
successor to de l’Epee
Abbe Sicard
taught French to deaf student Jean Massieu
Abbe Sicard
oral education of the deaf in Germany
Samuel Heinicke
father of “pure oralism”
Samuel Heinicke
deaf students of Sicard
Misssieu and Laurent Clerc