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<span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">The start of a new academic year and all the new students on campus brings to mind "firsts" of all sorts. The semester starts today as we are coming up on the 144th anniversary of
the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://heartdeaf.com/heart/content/timelines/TextSummaries/1880GeorgeWVeditzsGenesisoftheNationalAssociation.htm"><span class="s2" style="text-decoration:underline">First National Convention of Deaf
Mutes</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which met in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 25, 1880. Chaired by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s2" style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://youtu.be/YRmCgI1jtdw?si=V8n8VjPk4O1PIdrd">Edmund
Booth</a> </span>who announced their purpose - “</span><span class="s3" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">To deliberate on the needs of the deaf as a class."</span><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:normal">
Addressing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://wosu.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/bhk21-oralism/the-history-of-oralism-becoming-helen-keller/"><span class="s2" style="text-decoration:underline">oralism and the suppression of American
Sign Language</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was the first major agenda item for the new organization.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>At their third national convention in 1889
they changed their name to the National Association of the Deaf (<a href="https://www.nad.org/about-us/"><span class="s2" style="text-decoration:underline">NAD</span></a>).</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:21px"><a href="https://asl.osu.edu/" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;">The American Sign Language Program At The Ohio State University</a><font style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;"> </font><br>
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