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Michael Ndurumo, a deaf educator from Kenya, the third deaf person from Africa to be awarded a PhD; Marie Jean Philip, a teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language; George Veditz, the former president of the National Association of the Deaf, and one of the first people to film sign language
Clayton Valli (May 25, 1951 – March 7, 2003) was an American prominent deaf linguist and American Sign Language (ASL) poet whose work helped further to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature.
A deaf person called to the Torah who does not speak may recite the berakhot via sign language. A deaf person may serve as a shaliah tzibbur in sign language in a minyan whose medium of communication is sign language. [88] 2011: Mary Whittaker became the first deaf person to be ordained into the Church of Scotland. [89]
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The project, [8] which began in 1910, [9] aimed to film the masterful uses of sign language. One of the people recorded was the then-director of Gallaudet, Edward Miner Gallaudet. The shootings of the NAD were the first registry done of sign languages in the world, and are considered a valuable document of Deaf history.
In shifting between captioning and interpretation, between American Sign Language and spoken word, Matlin and her director make clear the fluid ways that deaf people move through a world.
Oh, there was a “fascinating new study” concluding that deaf drivers could be the world’s safest motorists,” but the only source I could find was the Weekly World News.
Henry Winter Syle, American cleric, first deaf person to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States (1883). [12] [13] Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen, South African politician, first deaf female Member of Parliament in the world [14] Heather Whitestone, first deaf woman to win the title of Miss America [citation needed]