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The Deaf President Now (DPN) protest at Gallaudet University lasted for a week, from March 6 to March 13, 1988. The protest was led by Gallaudet students, faculty, staff, and alumni, demanding that a deaf president be appointed, rather than a hearing president. The protest ultimately resulted in the appointment of the university's first deaf president, I. King Jordan.
I. King Jordan was the first deaf president of Gallaudet University, a deaf college, in 1988. His deafness was caused by a motorcycle accident at age twenty-one.
A president who was tone deaf was president Ulysses S. Grant
That would be the first deaf president.
Deaf PAH! is a program for deaf and hard of hearing people and offers courses for them. It is typically associated with the Lutheran Church. Pah! Day is celebrated in mid-March and commemorates the Gallaudet University Revolution of 1988, when college students and the deaf community shut down a university until a deaf individual was hired as the school's president. The students waved "Deaf Pah" signs and wore self-made paper hats in celebration.
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Adventitious deafness->A person who becomes deaf->can be caused by accidents (as when I King Jordan, the first deaf president of Gallaudet University, was hurled off his motorcycle), bomb blasts, injuries (e.g., punctured eardrums) extreme chill, high fever, viral infections such as mumps, meningitis, and encephalitis, diseases such as neurofibraomatiosis-2 (tumors that attack the auditory nerves). And reactions to certain (ototoxic) drugs .
Ronald Reagan was deaf , or almost deaf, in one ear due to an accident when he was making a movie. He wore a hearing aid which, according to stories, he wouild turn off on occasion during boring meetings. I think he was the nearest to deaf US president ever,
Yes. Although gallaudet-universityis billed as the "world's only liberal arts college for the deaf," a small number of hearing students are now admitted each year, as long as they are american-sign-language-proficient. Twenty-two years ago today, i-king-jordanbecame Gallaudet University's first deaf president. A week earlier, on March 6, 1988, a hearing person had been chosen for the position - the only hearing candidate among a list of qualified other deaf candidates - setting off a week-long student protest called deaf-president-now, which rocked the Deaf world. As a result, the newly selected president and the chairperson of the Board of Trustees stepped down; an agreement was reached that 51% of the Board would from then on be made up of deaf people; and no reprisals were taken against any student or employee involved in the protest. Since 1997, March 13 has marked the beginning of deaf-history-month.
Lou Ferigno, the first actor to play the hulk, is deaf
First Deaf school is American School for the Deaf (ASD) was founded at 1817 in Hartford, CT
Sophia Gallaudet was the widow of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, and mother of Edward Miner Gallaudet, who started Gallaudet University for the deaf. Sophia Gallaudet became the University's first school matron. Source: Gallaudet University website