Deaf Timeline

Selected Deafness Articles Through the Years

Below are selected articles from About Deafness/HOH, organized in a timeline. In some cases, the time periods overlapped such as being both 19th and 20th century. I assigned the articles to whatever time period seemed the most appropriate.

• Before 1700s
  • "Cures for Deafness"
  • History of Sign Language
  • Indian Sign Language
  • Martha's Vineyard
• 1700s
  • Abbe de L'Epee
  • Samuel Heinicke
• 1800s
  • Early 1800s
    • Erastus "Deaf" Smith
    • James "Deaf" Burke
    • Laura Bridgman Julia Brace
    • Laurent Clerc
    • Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
  • Late 1800s
    • Alexander Graham Bell and Deafness
    • Dummy Hoy
    • History of Gallaudet University
    • History of Hearing Aids
    • Milan 1880
    • Segregation in Schools for the Deaf
    • Thomas Edison
• 1900s
  • Early 1900s
    • Deaf, Not Retarded
    • Douglas Tilden
    • Helen Keller
    • Juliette Low
  • 1930s
    • Deaf People in the Great Depression
  • 1940s
    • Deaf People in the Holocaust
  • 1950s
    • Deaf Peddlers
    • Deaf People on Television 50s to Today
  • 1960s
    • History of the Cochlear Implant
    • History of the TTY
    • Dr. Richard Cornett (cued speech)
  • 1970s
    • Alone in the Mainstream
    • Growing Up Deaf Serial
    • History of Closed Captioning
    • Phyllis Frelich and Linda Bove
    • Signing Primates
    • Silent News and Julius Wiggins
    • William Castle
  • 1980s
    • Andrew Foster
    • Deaf President Now
    • History of the Silent Network
    • Marlee Matlin
  • 1990s
    • Heather Whitestone McCallum
    • Vinton Cerf
• 2000s
  • Christy Smith
  • Curtis Pride
  • Deanne Bray