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Deaf Culture’s Origins

Posted by rbwatson1 on November 6, 2009

 

The concept of Deaf Culture was first introduced in 1965 in the Dictionary of American Sign Language by William Stokoe, Carl Croneberg, and Dorothy Casterline. Before this time deaf people were looked at by medical and educational professionals only in terms of their deafness or hearing loss, not in terms of having their own culture.

Deaf Culture’s Origins
Deaf News Today
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:40:00 GMT

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