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Early History of Deaf People - Coggle Diagram
Early History of Deaf People
How were they treated?
Biblical times
Hebrews consider disabilities as a fact of life
Egyptians respected the disabled
deaf can't own property and were excluded from church membership
Greek society would give the father the authority to decide whether or not the deaf child would live
Middle Ages
rich families would help deaf children unlike the poor
deaf were objects of ridicule and court jesters
Renaissance
taught to read and write
deaf became artists, writers, etc.
First learning opportunities
again, the fortunate deaf children were usually born of royal bloodlines
Expansion of the deaf education in Europe
deaf people were being more respected as they start receiving more education
Timeline
Middle ages
the deaf were classified into five categories
Renaissance
learn that the deaf has the ability to express themselves and
capable of reason
Biblical times
attitudes towards deaf people were partly positive and negative
First learning opportunities
opportunities expanded as new methods were developed
Expansion of the deaf education in Europe
people no longer believed that deaf people lacked intelligence
The first real deaf community is said to have based in Paris
London Asylum for the deaf and dumb accepted deaf children from poor families
National Institute for Deaf Mutes was the first free national school for the deaf in the world
Ancient times
signs and gestures were first used before voice language
Some Significant figures
Ponce De Leon
first to work with deaf students
Ramirez de Carrion
carried de Leon's work with his practices with deaf student and was recorded on Bonet's book
Juan Pablo Bonet
carried de Carrión's work by writing books
Abbé Charles Michel de l' Epee
made the first free national school for the deaf in the world and nurtured an active deaf community in Paris
William Holder
teach using a two-handed manual alphabet
George Dalgarno
first person to articulate the diffictuly of blindness compared to deafness and made his version of fingerspelling
Henry Baker
made the first school for deaf
Kent Road
made a school that accepts poor deaf children
Abbé Sicard
director and principal of the National Institute for Deaf Mutes
Jean Massieu
first deaf teacher at the National Institute
How did sign language evolved?
Educators learned that the deaf can "hear" by reading and "speak" by writing
lipread the tutors also helped
Signs/gestures were the first languages made, which lead to helping voice language
receive more opportunities, education, and method (like Dalgarno version of fingerspelling alphabet and Holder two-handed manual alphabet)
as more methods were made, they were kept as secrets from other teachers
Different types of sign language were develop