This deaf heritage word search is based on Jack Gannon's 1981 book, "Deaf Heritage, " which I bought in 1984 to celebrate finding my identity as a deaf person. Find thebolded words, from the Prologue to Deaf Heritage, in the puzzle below:
- In 1760, Thomas Braidwood opened the first school for the deaf in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- In 1755, Samuel Heinicke started the first oral school for the deaf in the world, in Germany.
- Laurent Clerc came to America with Thomas H. Gallaudet on the ship, the Mary Augusta.
- Laurent Clerc, a deaf man,
- was a teacher at the National Royal Institution for the Deaf (NRID) in France.
- Gallaudet and Clerc planned to start a school for the deaf-the first one-in the United States.
- Some Hard of Hearing people consider themselves Deaf, and some deaf people consider themselves Hard of Hearing.
- Deaf people decide whether to identify themselves as big "D" Deaf or little "d" deaf.
- Different countries develop different sign languages, the same way you have English and German. America's sign language is known as American Sign Language, or ASL.
- Clerc is thought to have become deaf as a result of being burned as a toddler.
- Gallaudet became intrigued with deaf people when he met young deaf Alice Cogswell.
- The school that Gallaudet and Clerc opened in 1817, was called the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.
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