Deaf History, Literature and Arts Timeline

  • 1500

    Deaf Poetry

    all throughout deaf history
  • 1500

    Deaf Jokes

    all throughout deaf history
  • Erastus “Deaf” Smith

  • Laura Redden Searing

  • Douglas Tilden

  • Cadwallader Washburn

  • Laurent Clerc

  • Milan Conference

  • NAD

  • TTY

    late 1900s
  • LeRoy Colombo

  • Deaf Clubs

    more recent 1950 to the present
  • 1973 Disabled Gain Right to Equal Access

  • Cochlear Implant

  • Closed Captioning

    late 1900s
  • DPN

  • Personal FM system

    1990-2017
  • Instant messaging

    late 90s
  • Deaf socials

    more current
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