Laws and Rights – History of Deaf Politics

Students will work in teams of 3-4 students on a selected topic to create a Zoom presentation and research paper on their selected topic.

Presentation: A group of students will present your selected research on the date due. Presentations should be no more than 15 minutes in length. Presentation may include powerpoint slides and/or videos. Under your presentation, you must post at least one discussion question or poll to get students started discussing. All students are required to comment/engage on each presentation. (you may divide this work up, one student record the lecture, another work on the editing and uploading and another on question and content.)

Paper: each team member will write an individual 3-5 page research paper based on your topic. Include a minimum of two sources clearly cited. Discuss your topic and what you learned about topic. Your paper should include 2 suggested questions to be added to the final exam (based on your presentation) Each student will write their own paper based on this research. The count of pages does not include the cover page, table of contents, and/or a reference of biographies (works cited).

Schedule of due dates
Topic Due date
History of Deaf Education Week 13
History of Deaf Sign Languages Week 14
History of Deaf Community Week 14
History of Deaf Technology Week 15
History of Deaf Politics Week 15

On your due date you will submit:
• Present your selected topic
• Research paper via Brightspace
• Peer feedback rubric via Blackboard

There are five history-themed topics for class projects. You will select your preferred topic on Monday of Week 3.

1. Education – History of Deaf Education
   This focuses on the foundations of education for deaf children. The topics should be included in the research paper. Topics in general are Braidwood School in England, National Institute for Deaf Mutes in Paris, Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, Laurent Clerc, Deaf founders of Deaf schools in America, Current numbers of Deaf schools, Current numbers of Deaf supertindents in Deaf schools, important education figures and/or Deaf
   schools in other countries, timelines of Deaf education, bilingual and bicultural education, interpreting services and mainstreaming programs in public schools.

Note: Gallaudet University should not be mentioned in the research. It is confusing because of the name, Gallaudet. Thomas Gallaudet’s son, Edward, was the first president of Gallaudet University.

2. Language – History of Deaf Sign Languages
   This focuses on the foundation of sign languages for deaf children and deaf people. The topics should be included in the research paper. Topics in general are Martha’s Vineyard, Ponce de Leon, Aristotle, Jonathan Lambert,William Stokoe, Alexander Graham Bell, important figures and researchers of sign language and/or oralism, terminology and brief descriptions of American Sign Language (ASL) and Manually Coded English, timelines of
   sign languages, linguistics, Black ASL, and regional differences.
3. Deaf Culture – History of Deaf Community
   This focuses on the foundation of Deaf Community. The topics should be included in the research paper. Topics in general are residential schools for the Deaf, Deaf clubs, organizations for diversity people, norms of social behaviors, past and present settings for social interactions, interesting facts of social gatherings in other countries and Deaf culture of Diversity.
4. Technology – History of Deaf Technology
   This focuses on the ways of contacting Deaf people before and after the periods of technology revolution. Topics in general are telephone, TTY, facsimile (fax), relay services, emails, texts, Facebook Instagram, Glide, Marco Polo, videophones, past and present of baby signals, past and present house signals, and modern technologies in other countries.
5. Laws and Rights – History of Deaf Politics
   This focuses on the laws and rights that protect Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in America. The Deaf community impacted by laws and rights, National Association of the Deaf (NAD), World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), 1880 Milan, NFSD, rights/laws for education, language, and employment, interpreting service, relay services, media closed captioning, and immigration.