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These three green philosophers were the first people in history to write about people of deafness and deaf members of their society. Back then they thought it was completely impossible to teach deaf people because it was believed that the only way to learn was to hear.

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Monastic sign language was created because of a vow of silence people took while follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. When they couldn't speak allowed during certain parts of the day they still needed some way to communicate with one another creating this type of sign language that allowed that.

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Leon was one of the first teachers for the deaf and established the first school for the deaf. He focused on teaching students to speak language auto ably and writing in simple hand gestures. He was also known for making the first manual alphabet which allowed students to spell out any word.

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Bonet was one of the first people to give attention to deaf education. He would teach manual signs in the alphabet and taught what lip and tongue movements would creat what sound.

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When Lambert moved to the island and had his kids who were deaf just like him. As time went on more people who were deaf kept coming to the small island. Everyone learned a certain language that only people from the island knew and people from the outside world did not know it. Everyone on the island learned deaf or not. Once everyone that knew the language passed the language started to disappear

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L'Epee allowed for the methods he used in class to be able to be seen my the public. His methods became very influential and are still seen in some parts of the world today. He had a program for foreigners to take what he taught them back to their countries to teach deaf students in schools back in different countries. He created a system for spelling out the French language with simple signs which developed the frnehc sign language still used today.

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Heinicke met an ambassador who got him a position teaching deaf students which he soon realized was what he was meant to do. He believed that lip reading was the best method because it allowed the students to speak and understand the language the community spoke. He was so successful with his oral speaking teaching that he later was asked to open his own school which he did.

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1783 Braindwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb

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1783 Braindwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb

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Brainwood decided to teach deaf instead of those who could hear and open the first deaf school in Britain known as the Brainwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb. Braindwood used sign language, articulation, and lip reading in his School.

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Sicard was a French pioneer in teaching for the deaf. Sicard went to America and although he preferred teaching sing language turned to oral method. Sicard wrote a very important book one about the memoir on the art of teaching deaf and another about theory of signs fro instruction.

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Went to the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Paris and really succeeded with good grades. He was eventually asked to teach there which is when he met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Gallaudet brought Clerc back to America where they started teaching classes to deaf children.

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This school was the first school for deaf children located in Connecticut.This school is a private school focusing on all sign language. They had lots of sports and activities for the students and languages so they could be bilingual.

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Gallaudet met Brainwood and disagreed with his method of teaching deaf students to master lip reading. He believed that lip reading did not satisfy and was not the way to go. Then, Gallaudet along with Clerc created the first American school for Deaf. It start when Clerc taught Gallaudet sign language and Gallaudet taught Clerc english.

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He worked at the school his father founded for a couple of years until Amos Kendall asked him to come lead his school in Washington. Edward was the first principle at Columbia Institution for the Deaf. He wanted Columbia Institution to have college status which he got the Lincoln signed a bill into law that authorized them to give out college degrees.

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The University became a university after Lincoln signed a bill. The schools name went from Columbia Institution for the Deaf to Gallaudet University. The first three to graduate from here had their diplomas signed by President Grant and to this day still get singed by the president. Later the school was changed to Gallaudet College in honor of Thomas Gallaudet.

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Bell created a lot of new inventions and his most known was when he created the telephone. Bell also was known for teaching deaf students and was a vocal teacher. He wanted to remove deaf sign language teachers and only use the oral way.

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This conference put a ban on teaching sign language making so that only oral speaking was taught to deaf students. This cause a lot of sing language teaching teachers to lose their jobs, and people of deafness who used sign language to have a great deal of trouble because they now had to learn the oral way.

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This organization promotes rights of deaf people in the United States. It is non-profit organization run by Deaf people to advocate deaf rights. All 50 states and Washington D.C. are associations with NAD.

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1898 History of Hearing Aids and Cochleor Implants

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1898 History of Hearing Aids and Cochleor Implants

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The first electric hearing aid was invented by Miller Reese Huchison in 1898. He used an electric current to enhance wake signals. From here they kept created different types of hearing aids that slowly got better. They got smaller and started using less battery. In 1990 the first type of cochleae implants were created and were put in surgically.

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Veditz was an activist and a writer and he preserved and nurtured sign language by using film. 1904 is when Veditz became president of NAD because of his strong feelings on preserving sign language. He created some of the most significant films in deaf culture that showed sing language with Regensburg.

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The rediscovery of sign language lento the research finding of how different body looks, hair length and skin color for example, brought about how people of deafness looked at themselves. Because of this new found research ASL started to become more accepted throughout the United States.

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Stokoe worked at Gallaudet University and as he worked there he saw what a unique language sign language actually was. He is known for being the creator of the logistics study that supported movements that supported deaf people having civil rights and education. Stokoe with to others created the first ever sign language dictionary.

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1975 Education fo all Handicapped Children Act

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1975 Education fo all Handicapped Children Act

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This act was created to help all children with any disability have the right to learn equally and free of charge. This act provides students with disabilities to have what they need, like a wheel chair. This ensure parents and children are protected and taking things that they deserve. This act can help assist schools that don't have enough money to provide what the students need.

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People felt that the only deaf university should have it's own president which is what started DPN. It was a protest led by students bring the community together to get rights and abilities. The board had chosen a hearing person for president and saying deaf people can not "function" in a hearing world so they demanded a deaf president.

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The ADA helps deaf people have fair treatment when it comes to finding a job. They have to provide them with stuff needed if there is something that they would not be able to do, like having interpreters. The ADA also helps ensure that they are able to go to the same hospitals, police department, and schools and that they have communication that is effective and doesn't make them "different".