LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Deaf School, Deaf Culture, Sign Language

• School: Princeton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 310
• Professor: Masha Esipova

Document Summary

1760: first public deaf school in france. Used sign language to instruct deaf kids. Educators gathered to decide which method was best. The conference was rigged and stacked with more oralism supporters than manualism supporters, so they voted and decided that oralism was best and that deaf kids shouldn"t be taught sign language. 1913: george veditz & national association of the deaf (nad) 1965: dorothy casterline, carl croneberg & william stokoe"s research. 1967: national theater of the deaf (ntd) Formal asl literature emerged in 1970s and 1980s.