Deaf Movement at Gallaudet University: Deaf President Now

The slogan of the current "Deafness of the Deaf", "Deaf's Power" and "Deaf Pride" is often printed on Gallaudet student shirts. Before this surge, the embarrassing education of American schools over the past 200 years has transcended the doctrine of the hearing. Communication by word-oriented writing and reading ability is permanent and does not encourage manual visual communication. If they can not make friends in the world of hearing impairment, they can not listen and if they can not understand the words of dominant (auditory) culture, they can do it well. Cultural literacy is key

Deaf President is currently the Student Protest Behavior (DPN) held at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC in March 1988. In 1864, the university passed the Congressional Law to serve the hearing impaired and has never been led by the president of the hearing impaired from the beginning. The protest began on March 6, 1988. At that time, the Trustee Committee announced the decision to appoint a hearing, not the other high-quality hearing impaired candidates for the seventh president. Gallaudet student closed the campus with the support of graduates, faculty, staff, staff, faculty and staff. The protesters opened the door, burned the portrait, interviewed the press and asked the board to make four special concessions. On March 13, 1988 the protest action was over after all four requirements including the appointment of the monk, the King of Jordan and the president of the university were met.

A prominent example of the worldwide barbarous conscious movement in the second half of the 20th century was Gallaudet University, the world's only liberal arts college of hearing impaired protesting the appointment of a hearing of Elizabeth Sinssel in 1988 "President Deaf President !"was. After protests by American monks and an extensive report on president of the hearing impaired in the national media, American psychologist I. King Jordan was appointed the first deaf president of the university. The Gallaudet Revolution is one of the most prominent local political activities carried out by people around the world aimed at enabling Deaf people to control their lives and revive sign language in Deaf education It is only.

The monks' history and legacy are very rich and attractive. Those who want to know the history of the Deaf can read events like the current Deaf President's election campaign. Many people in history are blind. You may think that closed captions already exist, but the history of closed captions is still very young. This technology began with the French chef 's open caption in 1972 and closed captioning became available, but it was very limited in the early 1980' s. 1996 The Telecommunications Act provided closed captioning and is now widely used in communities of hearing impaired and hearing impaired.