Deaf Awareness Month Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Our identity
  2. 6. The first Deaf Oscar award winner
  3. 7. Signed and sang at Super Bowl LIX
  4. 8. World's only deaf university
  5. 10. This Deaf actress is often tied with the Sesame Street
  6. 11. Slur to describe deaf people in the past
  7. 12. Most important presence in ASL history in 20th for his preservation of ASL and culture
  8. 13. Slur to describe deaf people in the past
  9. 14. The Deaf pioneer of American Sign Language
  10. 16. This Deaf actor is famously known for his bellowing as the Hulk
  11. 17. First actor to win a Tony award and founder of the NTD (National Theater of the Deaf)
Down
  1. 1. Nickname for this famous baseball player who invented signals at the home run base
  2. 2. how we communicate with the alphabet
  3. 3. typically seen as the spokesperson for the deaf and blind in early 20th century
  4. 4. World's most famous pianist and composer in the 18th century
  5. 5. The earliest registered/known deaf person in history
  6. 9. Famously known as a UFC fighter, for his grappler style
  7. 11. Bing two words to describe what deaf people are typical of or tend to
  8. 15. The child who ignited Thomas Gallaudet's journey for finding a deaf pioneer in the America
  9. 16. First Deaf Black person to earn a doctorate at Gallaudet