Since September 2013, we have been celebrating the 150th anniversary of Gallaudet University and we will still be buzzing until the end of November 2014. And then in less than three years on April 15, 1817, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first permanent school for the deaf, American School for the Deaf (ASD) located in Hartford, CT. If it were not for this school and also the first two visionary leaders in the field of American Deaf Education - Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - there would be no Gallaudet University. And did you know that ASD was the first of this kind of school established when America was only 41 years old. In late 1830s, Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe used ASD as a model for establishing in America the first public school for the normal (hearing) and the blind respectively using public funds. Will there be a big American event to celebrate this unique school - ASD - in 2017? No idea but why not all OSDD (organizations serving deaf diversity) get together soon to make plans with the nations libraries and the American Library Association for presenting deaf cultural programs in all 56 American jurisdictions: 50 states, DC, two commonwealths and three territories? I just learned that there is 176 deaf schools in America. And to assure that communities and politicans know about our fight to save such and future deaf schools, lets build Deaf Culture Digital Libary. They will come. Community leaders and politicans
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:51:17 +0000
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