Who started Deaf Awareness Week?
Alice still searching for evidence. She will check at Gallaudet Archives. If you have information, please email her at alicehagemeyer@aol.com thanks) The start of Deaf Awareness Week can be traced back to Mary Jane Rhodes from the Council of Organizations Serving the Deaf. In the early 1970s, Rhodes and her support group of parents with deaf children, developed materials on “deaf awareness.” She also wrote articles about this new project in some deaf publications. November 11- 18, 1972: The first-ever known Deaf Awareness Week was launched by the Colorado Advisory Council Serving the Deaf (CACSD) The Week was chaired by Jerry Moers. David Anthony was the secretary. Colorado Governor John W. Love signed proclamation. It was Jan McMichael, a hearing person and a friend of the deaf community, who suggested that a “deaf awareness week” be instituted. Now we want to know where did she get this idea from or was it just popped up in her mind? December 1 – 7, 1974: The second known Deaf Awaren
Alice still searching for evidence. She will check at Gallaudet Archives. If you have information, please email her at alicehagemeyer@aol.com thanks) November 11- 18, 1972: The first-ever known Deaf Awareness Week was launched by the Colorado Advisory Council Serving the Deaf (CACSD) The Week was chaired by Jerry Moers. David Anthony was the secretary. Colorado Governor John W. Love signed proclamation. It was Jan McMichael, a hearing person and a friend of the deaf community, who suggested that a “deaf awareness week” be instituted. Now we want to know where did she get this idea from or was it just popped up in her mind? 1973 – Iowa – The second Deaf Awareness Week was proclaimed by the governor with the support of the Iowa Association of the Deaf (Alice stilll researching) December 1 – 7, 1974: The third known Deaf Awareness Week began in Washington, DC. Mayor Walter E. Washington signed proclamation. The D.C. Public Library (DCPL) wanted to announce its new TTY services to the publ
