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  2. Alice Lougee Hagemeyer - Wikipedia

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    In 1974 she created Deaf Awareness Week, later called Deaf Heritage Week, in which programs about deaf culture are held in libraries. [4] She became the District of Columbia Public Library's first full-time "Librarian for the Deaf Community" in 1976. [2] Also in 1976, she earned a master's degree in Library Science from the University of ...

  3. Deaf history - Wikipedia

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    Deaf people who know Sign Language are proud of their history. In the United States, they recount the story of Laurent Clerc, a Deaf educator, and Thomas H. Gallaudet, an American educator, coming to the United States from France in 1816 to help found the first permanent school for deaf children in the country. In the late 1850s there was a ...

  4. Deaf culture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. state regulation from the Colorado Department of Human Services defines Deaf (uppercase) as "A group of people, with varying hearing acuity, whose primary mode of communication is a visual language (predominantly American Sign Language (ASL) in the United States) and have a shared heritage and culture," and has a separate definition for ...

  5. History of deaf education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia, [1] an oral school, was established by William Bolling and John Braidwood, and the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a manual school, was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. [1]

  6. Are deaf drivers under any restrictions? Here’s what states ...

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    Back in 1920 there were a few states that, for a short time, didn’t allow deaf people to get a driver’s license. Apart from those states during that time, deafness has not disqualified people ...

  7. Deaf culture - Wikipedia

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    The library at Gallaudet University, the only deaf liberal arts university in the United States, was founded in 1876. The library's collection has grown from a small number of reference books to the world's largest collection of deaf-related materials, with over 234,000 books and thousands of other materials in different formats.

  8. 'Sesame Street' celebrates Deaf History Month with music ...

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    Deaf History Month began on March 13 and to celebrate, ... See list of grocery stores coming to 9 states. Finance. Associated Press Finance. How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 12/26/2024.

  9. Oscar-Nominated ‘Audible’ Team Debuts PSA for Deaf History ...

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    The PSA features the documentary’s Amaree McKenstry-Hall, and deaf activist and model Nyle DiMarco, communicating through American Sign Language, explaining the documentary and Deaf History Month.