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Schools of deaf education in the United States (3 P) Pages in category "Deafness organizations in the United States" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Up until 2006, a package delivery company had a policy of not employing deaf workers as drivers. The company said that deaf drivers posed a safety problem because of their inability to hear other ...
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD) (1975) – coalition of local, state and national disability organizations. [1] American Council of the Blind (ACB) – represents a diverse range of groups within the blind community. American Diabetes Association (ADA) (1939) – educates the public about diabetes.
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is an organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States. NAD was founded in Cincinnati , Ohio, in 1880 as a non-profit organization run by Deaf people to advocate for deaf rights, its first president being Robert P. McGregor of Ohio.
Organizations, including the National Association of the Deaf, the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf, the Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf, and the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, lobbied Congress on behalf of the program. In 1958 the Captioned Films for the Deaf, Inc. became federal Public Law 85 ...
UPS Honors Pennsylvania Drivers for 25 Years of Safe Driving PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UPS (NYS: UPS) today announced 36 elite drivers from Pennsylvania are among 1,283 newly inducted ...
The Conventions of American Instructors of the Deaf, 1850-1893, V. Supplement, in: Fay, Edward Allen. 1893. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817–1893. Proceedings of the (Gallaudet) Sixth National Conference of Superintendents and Principals [permanent dead link ], Jackson, Mississippi, April 14–17, 1888. Ninth Conference of ...
Following the conference, schools in Europe and the United States switched to using speech therapy without sign language as a method of education for the deaf. [2] 1880: America's National Association of the Deaf was established. [24] 1883: Ed Dundon became the first deaf player in Major League Baseball. [25]