Earliest Known History of Deaf People
Across
- 3. Amish physician who advocated oralism
- 6. published "Chirlogia" on fingerspelling
- 7. first person to write about sign language
- 8. earliest well-known teacher of the deaf in France
- 11. stated deaf are incapable of intelligence
- 12. Spanish Benedictine monk who taught deaf with emphasis on speech
Down
- 1. German educator who advocated oralism
- 2. deaf person who fell into a cooking fire
- 4. first deaf teacher at the National Institute
- 5. Roman emperor who wrote the five categories for deaf people
- 6. opened a deaf school in Edinburgh
- 9. wrote the book "The Simplification of Letters and the Art of Teaching the Mute to speak"
- 10. wrote a dictionary of signs
- 13. established a school for deaf children, The National Institute for Deaf-Mutes