1. Joshua Windes Shaiquiar Smith
Deaf History
Joshua Windes
Shaiquiar Smith

2. 1750
25% of the residents at Martha’s Vineyard were deaf.

3. 1755
Samuel Heinicke established the first oral school for the deaf in Germany

4. 1760
Charles Michel de l’Epee founded the first free school for the deaf in France

5. 1760
French sign was established.

6. 1776
Abbe de l’Epee published “Instruction of deaf and dumb by means of methodical signs”

7. 1778
Samuel Heinicke, “Father of the German Method” (pure oralism) established a deaf school in Leipzig.

8. 1780
Charles Green of Boston became one of the earliest deaf Americans to receive formal education overseas in Scotland.

9. 1782
R.A. Sicard opened a school for the deaf at Bordeaux: wrote Theorie Des Signes (dictionary of signs).

10. 1784
Abba Silvestri opened first school for the deaf in Rome, Italy

11. 1789
Abbe de l’Epee died.