‘I wanted to serve’: These deaf men helped NASA understand motion sickness in space
Extracted from The Washington Post - 5 May 2017 - By Sarah Larimer
Video above: In the 1960s, 11 men with ties to Gallaudet University...
Deaf History March 22nd 1912
If you thought that campaigning and lobbying were recent additions to the BDA's portfolio, think again. On this day one hundred and five years...
Google Doodle’s celebration of British Sign Language
As many children return to school this week, Google recently celebrated Britain's first school for the deaf, through a 'Google Doodle' of signing the letters of...
The 19th century deaf relay interpreter
In the third part of our interpreting history series Anne Leahy and Cormac Leonard look at two court cases in which deaf intermediaries facilitated...
Manualism vs Oralism debate
Because humans use our eyes more than any other sense and because of our instinctive fear of the dark, most people think deafness must...
Preserving Deaf Art
The Deaf Museum & Archive’s collection includes works by deaf artists going back to the 18th century. Peter Jackson encourages members of the Deaf...
William Stokoe – American Sign Language scholar
William Stokoe (pronounced Stowkee) is the man most responsible for ASL being recognised as an official language rather than just a mimed vocabulary. Surprisingly, he wasn't deaf or a signer. He was an English teacher who had gone to Gallaudet college (the world's only Deaf University) in 1955 to teach Chaucer to deaf students.
An interpreter in the missioner era
During the 19th century the role of the sign language interpreter was often undertaken by education professionals and missioners. Anne Leahy and Cormac Leonard...
Can primates learn signs and acquire language?
In August 1969, Allen and Beatrice Gardner of the University of Nevada published an article in the journal Science claiming to have communicated with a chimpanzee called Washoe.
She had been brought up since 1966 in the Gardner's trailer and could use 100 signs. She was intelligent enough to sign "water bird" when she saw a swan. By the time of her death in 2007, she used 250 signs.
The Life of William Shaw
William Shaw (1869-1949) was arguably the greatest Deaf inventor. He invented Deaf-friendly doorbells, alarms, clocks, baby monitors and phones.
