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The DeafSpace Program was established by architect Hansel Bauman, hbhm architects, when he was commissioned in 2005 by Gallaudet University, the world's first and only university for the deaf. [4] The concept was originally thought to be “visu-centric, generally about visual orientation. [4]
Burke's primary research focus has been Deaf philosophy; the intersection of philosophy and Deaf studies.Within this realm, she has worked on topics such as the ethics of sign-language interpreting, deaf gain through the lens of intrinsic and instrumental value, moral justification regarding the use of technology to intentionally bear deaf children, and deaf liberty. [2]
Gallaudet University [a] (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ d ɛ t / GAL-ə-DET) is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children.
Olof Hanson married Agatha Tiegel whom he had met at the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, where she was a deaf teacher. Agatha Tiegel was the first female graduate of Gallaudet University's full program, with a B.A. in 1893.
She went on to become an instructor for commercial art at Gallaudet while also training at Maryland School of Design learning illustration. She earned her MFA, then achieved a rare accomplishment for deaf women by earning a doctorate degree in art education at Pennsylvania State University.
Having experienced first-hand the problems for deaf students in classrooms without sign language interpreters, Solomon, who teaches biology at Gallaudet University, has designed databases to help students and teachers network with organizations and interpreters familiar with educational bridges for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
[2] [3] She has a B.A. in Deaf Studies with a minor in History from Gallaudet University (2011) where she was on a team which took first place in the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl in 2008. [4] Her honors project at Gallaudet was a book called Gallaudet at 150: Chapter One, covering campus history from 1857 to 1880. [1]
Through Deaf Eyes : a Photographic History of an American Community. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2007 ISBN 1563683474 OCLC 1135285783; World Federation of the Deaf : a History. Silver Spring, Md. : National Association of the Deaf, 2011 ISBN 9780913072967 OCLC 785424763; Get Your Elbow Off the Horn : Stories Through the Years.