ASL Timeline
Updated 3 Apr 2019
A Time line of big events in ASL history.
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Created byJackson Wood
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In 1817, Gallaudet opened the "Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons" in Hartford, Connecticut; it was the first U.S. deaf school.Laurent Clerc Helps Gallaudet to found the first deaf american schoolAlice Cogswell Meets Gallaudet and inspires him to creat the Texas school for the deaf.The first school for the deaf is opened in americaAlice Cogswell enrolls as there first student ever.William Willard became the first deaf superintendent in America and founded Indiana School for the DeafThe first ever edition of closed captioning is released showing the French ShefThe Milan conferenceNational association for the deaf is founded.TTY is invented and introduced to the world.The first video relays are createdASL Dictionary is finished by William StokoeRehabilitation Act s passedAmericans with disability’s act is passeHarvard stops offering ASLFirst dear presidents at
GallaudetPL 94-142 passed21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility ActASL is accepted at harvord once againSuddden spike in deaf people creates need for a language.first protest for a deaf persident at Gallaudet Universitythe coclear implant is officaly made publickentucky school for the deaf is foundedthe first deaf state is proposedClayton Valli performs at Harvard
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