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Chapter 19 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - creator of light bulb and more
    - - brainchild of shorthand writing.
    - - founded the Girl Scouts organization in 1912.
    - - an internationally renowned musician.
    - - a comedienne, singer, dancer, and actress.
  - - - First Deaf person to be executed.
    - - First Deaf Catholic man to become a priest,
    - - First Black Deaf professional middleweight boxer,
    - - First Deaf Major League baseball player,
    - - First Deaf woman to appear on the TV series, Survivor: The Amazon
    - - First Deaf soldier to spy against Mexico in 1821
    - - First Deaf person to participate in Amazing Race , a TV series.
    - - First female Deaf pilot,
    - - First Deaf person to serve in the U.S. Ofﬁce of Vocational Rehabilitation, in 1945.
    - - First Deaf female to be crowned Miss America, in 1995.
  - - - Labored for more deaf rights.
      - “What is between the ears is more important than what is in the ears.”
    - - ﬁrst known African American to graduate from Gallaudet College
      - establish over 30 schools for deaf children, in Africa
    - - First Deaf President of Gallaudet
    - - ﬁrst person to have served as president for all three deaf education professional organizations
    - - Founder of Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services (ADWAS).
    - - a well-known teacher and athlete at Texas School for the Deaf,
      - started the girls’ athletic program
      - Her Students would win competitions
    - - ﬁrst known deaf-blind man to ﬁnish college.
  - - - owners of two of four deaf-owned interpreting/videophone ﬁrms.
    - - Owns and designed Skiqwaqui, a nine-hole golf course
    - - founded DawnSignPress
    - - runs an Internet and mail order business that sells various hearing loss equipment, novelties and books/DVDs.
    - - owned Macfadden and Associates, Inc., a computer consulting ﬁrm
    - - Technical Computer Services (TCS) designs and repairs computer systems and provides assistive technology in federal government,
    - - established T.S. Writing Services in 2003
    - - provides ﬁnancial planning and tax preparation services.
  - - - Hillis Arnold
        
        John Brewster,
        
        Morris
        
        Broderson,
        
        John Carlin,
        
        George Catlin
        
        Louis Frisino,
        
        Kathleen Giddens,
        
        William B. Sparks,
        
        Douglas Tilden,
        
        Cadwallader Washburn,
    - - Shelley Beattie,
        
        Lou Ferringo
        
        Le Roy Colombo
        
        Marsha Wetzel
    - - Rhulin Thomas
        
        Thomas was the ﬁrst deaf aviator to ﬂy across the nation
    - - Olof Hanson,
        
        Thomas Scott Marr,
        
        Thomas J. Posedly,
    - - Frank G. Bowe,
        
        became a disability-rights advocate. He was involved in many activities and wrote over 25 books on disability rights and other topics.
    - - Heather Whitestone,
        
        First deaf Miss America
      - France Woods,
        
        one of the professional dancers known as “Frances Woods and Billy Bray.”
    - - John R. Gregg,
        
        invented the Gregg Shorthand system and started the Gregg School, which became a business school.
      - Anson R. Spear,
        
        Spear invented and patented a merchandise mailing envelope and secured two patents.
      - Robert Carr Wall,
        
        built the ﬁrst gas-powered automobile
    - - Michael A. Chatoff,
        
        He is known to be the ﬁrst deaf lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and it was the ﬁrst time that the Court permitted the use of technology
      - Lowell Myers,
        
        He successfully defended a black young man who was accused of murder (this case was eventually the topic of a book and made into a 1 979 television movie
      - Bonnie Poitras Tucker,
        
        After several years of private practice, she became a tenured law professor at Arizona State University College of Law .
    - - William W. Beadell,
        
        Edmund Booth,
        
        Laura Redden Searing,
        
        David Pierce,
        
        Henry Kisor,
    - - Donald L. Ballantyne,
        
        a pioneer in the ﬁeld and trained surgeons in the United States and Europe. He co-authored over 75 journal articles and two books on the technique.
      - Frank Peter Hochman,
        
        the ﬁrst born-deaf American to become a physician.
    - - Kitty O’Neil,
        
        a stuntwoman in movies,
        set a world records
    - - Regina Olson Hughes,
        
        Her works are exhibited in several botanical museums and published in at least a dozen books,
    - - Juliette Gordon Low,
        
        founded Girl Scouts
      - Erastus Smith,
        
        spy for General Houston in the Texan army that beat Mexico in a revolution.
      - Boyce R. Williams,
        
        served 38 years in the Ofﬁce of Vocational Rehabilitation
        
        he helped start programs for deaf people, including the National Theatre of the Deaf, Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, and Captioned Films for the Deaf.
    - - Tamika Catchings,
        
        William E. Hoy
        
        Ronda Jo Miller,
        
        Curtis Pride,
        
        William Schyman,
        
        Luther H. Taylor,
        
        Kenny Walker,
  - - - published Deaf Again and On the Fence: The Hidden World of the Hard of Hearing.
    - - known for his well-researched and documented study of Pictures in the Air: The Story of the National Theatre of the Deaf
    - - has written extensively about deaf heritage for almost 30 years.
    - - created many humorous “deaf ” deﬁnitions, published in Deaﬁnitions and More Deaﬁnitions
    - - authored several books in relation to Deaf culture, through humorous anecdotes.
    - - Men with Their Hands , won ﬁrst place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 contest.
    - - was the owner of a publishing company, Paris Publications.
    - - published Do You Hear Me
    - - collected breast cancer stories from 50 women and one man from all over the U.S.