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Historical Issues in Deaf Education - Coggle Diagram
Historical Issues in Deaf Education
Gallaudet VS. Bell
to men both with deaf mothers
could not be more opposite in ideas over deaf education
Gallaudet preferred signed language, bell encourage oralism
bell interested in eugenics, preventing more deaf people
1880/Post Milan
a huge majority of hearing people decided its better for deaf people to learn to speak
that discrimination and autism bled over to America
new deaf students segragated from those who could sign and taught only speech and lipreading
signed languages banned in schools
Segragation
first segragation in students during transition to oral methods
black people were allowed to be educated but had to be in seperate rooms
Deaf Rights/DPN
the community fought for access, interpreters and captioning
deaf president now used the same blueprint as other civil rights movements
DPN was successful in getting Gallaudet's first deaf president
Stigma/Discrimination
deaf people were thought of as less than
deaf teachers were considered unfit because they couldn't teach speech.