Deaf History

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Across
  1. 4. Where did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet learn about Deaf education?
  2. 5. What is the name of the girl that motivated Gallaudet to seek out methods of teaching deaf children?
  3. 6. What was the name of the island where there was a high deaf population
  4. 7. What is the name of the deaf baseball player who created hand signals?
  5. 9. What is the last name of the hearing man who co-founded the first school for the deaf in America?
  6. 11. What state is the American School for the Deaf located?
  7. 12. What caused two signed languages, ASL and BASL varients to form?
  8. 13. What is the last name of the deaf man who co-founded the first school for the deaf?
  9. 15. How many sign languages were used to create ASL?
  10. 16. What languge is ASL most closely related to?
  11. 17. Who helped prove ASL is a complete and complex language?
Down
  1. 1. Where is Gallaudet University located?
  2. 2. President of the National Associaiton of the Deaf who helped preserve ASL?
  3. 3. What country turned Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet away?
  4. 8. Where was the 1880 conference on deaf education held?
  5. 10. Who is considered a villian of the Deaf community?
  6. 14. What U.S. President signed Gallaudet University's charter?