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Prominent Deaf Leaders - Coggle Diagram
Prominent Deaf Leaders
DEAF WORLD
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Majority of the Deaf children are born to hearing parents or have become prelingually deaf. Which most do not feel like they fit into either groups.
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Childhood diseases through immunization saw the decrease of children become deaf at later ages. There was a higher occurrence of children who were born deaf but due to hereditary causes within families.
Notable Deaf Leaders
Frederick Schreiber
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Lost his hearing at the age of 6 in New York. He attended the New York School for the Deaf. He then graduated from Gallaudet College.
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Andrew Foster
He went deaf at the age of 11. He went to Alabama School for the Deaf. He was also known as the first African American to graduate from Gallaudet College as well as from Eastern Michigan University.
He went to Christian Mission College in Washington where he became a minister. He also went to Africa to help over 30 schools for deaf children. He died in a plane crash in 1987.
I. King Jordan
He was the eighth president of Gallaudet University. Lost his hearing in a motorcycle accident when he was young while being in the U.S Navy in Washington. He was the first Deaf President of Gallaudet University in March 1988. He retired in December of 2006.
Robert Davila, Ph.D
Has had numerous positions within the education field. He taught at Gallaudet University where he was promoted university vice president.
President George H.W. picked him to become the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rebilitation in the US Department of Education.
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Entrepreneurs
David Birnbaum
He owns the Birnbaum Interpreting Services in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Deaf Wax Museum
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Other notable figures that were included there were the Girl Scots of America founder who was Juliette Gordon Low.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet who founded the American School for the Deaf. Laurent Clerc, he was one of the first Deaf teacher in America.
Also Don Baer, who is a native Californian. He founded the Deaf Heritage Wax Collection.
He had a desire to preserve Deaf heritage and culture by creating a collection of a hundred wax figures with individuals who have represented and influenced Deaf people throughout the years.
Don still to this day had added more to his collection. The latest person he has done is Bernard Bragg performing mime.
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