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This guide was developed by
Cathryn Carroll
Publications and Information
Dissemination
Laurent Clerc National Deaf
Education Center
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Educator's Exhibit Guide
In "History Through Deaf Eyes," an exhibition that is touring
the country, photographs of deaf people illustrate how the founding of
schools for deaf students led to the formation of a vibrant American deaf
community. If you plan to take your students, children, or young friends
to this exhibit, you may find the educator's guide helpful.
Purposes of the Educator's Guide
Use this guide:
- To prepare for a visit to the exhibition.
- To continue a discussion about deaf people after a visit to the exhibition.
- To develop and supplement lessons plans for the exhibition, using
a study guide, worksheets, timelines, and illustrations.
- To provide students with material to begin independent research into
deaf people, the deaf community, and other communities held together
by shared language, culture, and misunderstandings on the part of those
who are outside of the community.
Exhibition Goals
- To present the deaf population in a context to which many people can
relate, aligning deaf experiences with U.S. history.
- To explore the ways that a segment of the deaf population - the cultural
linguistic community of Deaf people - formed and maintains connections
to each other, their common experiences, language use, and struggles.
- To identify turning points in the history of deaf experience in the
United States, and the forces creating change.
- To foster respect for plurality and diversity through greater understanding
of a community.
- To encourage students and visitors to examine the historic struggles
of deaf people as individuals and as a Deaf community and to view events
both with empathy of the time and from a contemporary perspective.
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