COMD 2051 : Exam 2
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437-347 bc plato: all intelligence was present at birth. Without speech, no outward sign of intelligence : it was thought that deaf people were not capable of ideas or language. 335 bc aristotle, greek philosopher: born deaf, senseless and incapable of reason . 1500s: geronimo cardano (italy: attempts to teach his deaf son using a code of symbols. 1500s-1600s: pedro ponce de leon & juan pablo bonet: 1st credited with helping the deaf acquire language mostly fingerspelling. Settle by immigrants from england who carried dominant and recessive genes for deafness. Developed its own form of sign language (mvsl) French priest: father of sign language and deaf education * Established 1st free public school for deaf (1771) in paris. Thomas hopkins gallaudet travels to europe to investigate their methods of deaf education & meets laurent clerc. 1817: both start american school for the deaf in hartford, connecticut. 1840-1912: more than 30 schools for the deaf were established.
