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Deaf deaf Big D
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• Culture
• Prefers ASL
• Think they are normal
• Prefers the term Deaf
• Associates with the deaf world.

• Medical issue
• Prefers to speak/lipread
• Wants to become normal
• Prefers the term hearing-impaired
• Wants to associate with the hearing world

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Deaf Smith
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Deaf Smith

• Texas Revolutionary War hero.
• Was a scout, cavalry officer and spy.
• First person learn of the fate of the Alamo.
• Participated in the battle of San Jacinto.

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Gallaudet University
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Gallaudet University

• Abraham Lincoln signed the charter to offer deaf
  students college courses in 1865.
• Edward Miner Gallaudet, Thomas' son, was the
  first superintendent of the college.
• The university is located in Washington D.C.

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Alexander G. Bell
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Alexander G. Bell

• Invented the telephone in 1875. Initially tried
  to invent devices to help deaf people speak or to
  see sound.
• Was a teacher of the deaf (oralism).
• Wife and mother deaf.
• Was successful in banning ASL from most schools.

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Helen Keller
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Helen Keller

• Became deaf and blind from illness at 19 months.
• By age 6 she had learned over 60 home signs.
• Anne Sullivan taught Helen the manual alphabet
  and became her interpreter.
• Helen graduated college at the age of 24.

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William Dummy Hoy
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William Dummy Hoy

• Held many major league records. One still stands
  unbroken today. During one game he threw out
  three base runners at home plate from center
  field.

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Juliette Daisy Gordon Low
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Juliette Daisy Gordon Low

• Lost hearing in one ear at age 25 due to
  treatment for an ear infection. Became fully deaf
  at the age of 29 when a grain of rice punctured
  the ear drum of her good ear.
• Learned ASL
• Founded the Girl Scouts

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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Ludwig van Beethoven

• Music composer who began losing his hearing at
  the age of 30. Became fully deaf 10 years later.
  Composed several musical pieces while deaf
  completely from memory.
• Beethoven's ninth symphony

Ode to Joy
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National Theatre of the Deaf
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National Theatre of the Deaf

• Started in 1966.Uses both hearing and deaf
  actors.
• Based in Connecticut it is a professional theatre
  group that travels around the world putting on
  plays in ASL (voice interpreted).

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Marlee Matlin
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Marlee Matlin

• In 1986 won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
  She was not born deaf but became deaf at age 2.

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Gallaudet University Protest
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• In March 1988 the students protested the
  selection of another hearing president for
  Gallaudet University. They shut the school down
  until the Board of Trustees (school board)
  selected I. King Jordan as Gallaudet University's
  first deaf president.

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Heather Whitestone
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Heather Whitestone

• In 1995 she became the first deaf woman to win
  the crown of Miss America.
• Growing up she attended speech-only schools
  (oralism).

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CHUCK BAIRD

• Deaf artist who incorporated signs into his art
  work.