ASL deaf history

8,000 BCE (10,000 years ago) earliest known example of skeletal evidence associated with hearing loss

1550 BCE(Ancient Egypt) earliest written record of hearing loss

350 BCE (Greece)start of Audism, Aristotle and Plate wrote that those that were unable to think could not speak and therefore the deaf’s were dumb

360 BCE (Greece) Plato wrote the first reference to sign language

900 CE (10th century) France- monks in Burgundy created hand signals called the Cluniac sign language so that they would not break their strict vow of silence.

Mid-1500s CE; (Spain) inspiration for first finger-spelled alphabet was made by Spanish Benedictine Pedro Ponce De Leon at the first deaf school

Late 1700s; (France) Abbē de L’Epée founder of French institute for deaf mutes saw students use signals to communicate he added grammar to French and reproduced French with hands and made OFSL

1815 America- Thomas Gallaudet was an American pastor and had a neighbor whose daughter (Alice Cogswell) was deaf so he went to Europe to study at the French institute for deaf

1817- ( Hartford Connecticut ) Gallaudet and Clare moved to America and founded the Connecticut asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons also know as the school of deaf Clare was the first deaf teacher there and 60% ASL is from OFSL

1864 Washington D.C national deaf mute college called Gallaudet university was founded in Washington DC only for the deaf, Abraham Lincoln signed a charter to open the school, Gallaudet son Edward Miner Gallaudet was fluent in ASL and English

1867; Queens New York - Bernard Engelsman a hearing German man created a method of teaching oralism moved to America to teach in 64 and in 67 NY institution for lip reading

1880 Milan Italy 1st international deaf convention - Milan convention in Milan despite the protests, the outlaw of sign language was made in school and only speech therapy and oral method were allowed despite Gallaudet method in the US Italian took over

Pedro Ponce, de Leon first finger spelled alphabet at first deaf school in the mid 1500s

Thomas Gallaudet, an American pastor who learned sign language and founded school of DEF Alice Cogswell, daughter of a man that lived next to Thomas Gallaudet. Alice was deaf

Alice Cogswell- daughter of a man that lived next to Thomas Gallaudet. Alice was deaf.

Laurent Clark, deaf teacher that taught at deaf school, and found an American school Of deaf with Gallaudet

Edward Minor Glaude it Gallaudet founded the national deaf, mute college Gallaudet university. It was a deaf college only he was fluent in ASL in English Abraham Lincoln, signed charter to open the school

Bernard Engelsman, a German that created a German method called moralism method of lipreading in 1867 the New York institution for lipreading was opened

Alexander Graham Bell child is deaf parents he was the most hated person in the deaf community. He thought that deaf people shouldn’t marry other deaf people.

William stokoe studied at sign language University to prove that ASL was an official language made written notation stokoe notation.

I. king Jordan - the first deaf president for the Gallaudet deaf school, replaced former president Elizabeth Zinser