HLTHAGE 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gallaudet University, Neurotypical, Lip Reading
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1000 bce, hebrew texts prohibit deaf individuals from holding property or marrying. Greek philosophers closely connected hearing, thought, and learning. Notion that all language was present at birth in people"s minds & that failing to speak indicated lack of intelligence. (aristotle) Some early christian leaders linked faith & hearing. Others saw deafness as a result of divine wrath. Or deaf were incapable of performing worship properly. Double oppression of some deaf individuals ex: black deaf people"s struggles not represented by. Naacp nor the national association of the deaf where black individuals were prohibited from joining. Although historically understood as lacking intelligence necessary for education, 17th c shift via introduction of finger spelling in france. 1760: first school for deaf children in edinburgh, soon attracts children from across the world. Watson heads asylum for the deaf and dumb in london, builds on the former mixed teaching style (both oralism and manualism)= famous around the world.