2008 Woodie Awards
Did You Know... (Deaf Town)
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: On Campus
• The huddle formation used by football teams originated at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for deaf people in Washington, D.C., to prevent other schools from reading their sign language.
• Nine out of ten parents with deaf children can hear.
• Two to three out of 1,000 children are born deaf.
• Hearing loss is greater in men.
• A deaf center-fielder for the Cincinnati Reds, William Hoy, is credited by some for inventing the hand signals for strikes and balls in baseball.
• Approximately 28 million Americans have a hearing impairment.
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, did research on hearing and speech that "led him to experiment with hearing devices that eventually culminated in the invention of the telephone."
• No one form of sign language is universal. For example, British Sign Language (BSL) differs notably from ASL. Different sign languages are used in different countries or regions.
Sources: www.nidcd.nih.gov, pr.gallaudet.edu and www.pbs.org
• Nine out of ten parents with deaf children can hear.
• Two to three out of 1,000 children are born deaf.
• Hearing loss is greater in men.
• A deaf center-fielder for the Cincinnati Reds, William Hoy, is credited by some for inventing the hand signals for strikes and balls in baseball.
• Approximately 28 million Americans have a hearing impairment.
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, did research on hearing and speech that "led him to experiment with hearing devices that eventually culminated in the invention of the telephone."
• No one form of sign language is universal. For example, British Sign Language (BSL) differs notably from ASL. Different sign languages are used in different countries or regions.
Sources: www.nidcd.nih.gov, pr.gallaudet.edu and www.pbs.org
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