LSGN 109 Lecture Notes - Gallaudet University, Deaf President Now, Sign Language
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Most deaf people are raised in hearing families 90% Only 10% of deaf children are born into a native visual language readily accessible to them. Schooling deaf children: seemed logical to collect them in one place to address their common language/learning needs. In 1880, there was an international conference of deaf educators, the second international. At this conference, held september, 1880, a declaration was made that oral education (teaching the deaf to read lips and use their voice) was better than manual (sign language) education. Sign language was banned/forbidden at schools for the deaf. For more than 70 years a shameful stigma was associated with using sign language. Mid 1970"s asl achieved recognition as a unique language, different from english. Not until 1970"s did schools for the deaf begin using asl to teach students.
