Podcast 1- Developing a Signed Language

Throughout the year I will be posting podcasts on deaf history subjects. You should not be surprised to see questions about them on quizzes (*hint*).

The following podcast is about the roots of sign language (with the use of a manual alphabet very similar to the one we use in ASL today) from the earliest records of deaf education, beginning in Spain.

Important Names/Titles:

• Melchor De Yebra
• Juan Pablo Bonet
• Book: Simplification of the Letters of the Alphabet and Method of Teaching Deaf-Mutes to Speak