Deaf in the United States

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Across
  1. 2. First live sporting event with closed captioning in 1981.
  2. 4. Deaf actress on Sesame Street
  3. 5. Established that ASL is a true legitimate language
  4. 7. French Deaf educator who helped develop ASL
  5. 8. first Deaf person on TV’s reality show “Survivor.”
  6. 13. U.S. president who signed the charter for Gallaudet University
  7. 17. first Deaf Academy Award winner
  8. 20. Student protest in 1988
  9. 22. De’Via artist that uses bold, primary colors and Deaf-themes expressing affirmation, resistance, and liberation
  10. 23. Founded the American School for the Deaf in 1817 with Mason Cogswell and Laurent Clerc.
Down
  1. 1. Theater company founded in 1991 known for productions: Big River and Spring Awakening
  2. 3. The first deaf person known to have settled on Martha's Vineyard in 1692.
  3. 6. Happening this year in Japan starting November 15th.
  4. 9. Full name of the 1st Deaf president of Gallaudet University
  5. 10. American Deaf author and historian
  6. 11. the Deaf man who was named in the “Guinness Book of World Records” for the number of times he saved a life as a lifeguard- he saved 907 lives.
  7. 12. invented baseball signs “safe” and “strike”
  8. 14. Deaf quarterback who invented the football huddle
  9. 15. Academy Award winner for CODA
  10. 16. The sign for your name is often based on a characteristic or physical feature that relates to the person’s identity and given to you by a Deaf person.
  11. 18. A Deaf artist who incorporated handshapes of the sign into his artwork
  12. 19. One of the first people to film ASL and he was the 7th president of the National Association for the Deaf
  13. 21. founded in 1880 to advocate for the rights of Deaf Americans