Be sure to visit ASL Rose for updates and videos from time to time. To see a quick glimpse of general ASL Rose and Deaf history and understand where everything was coming from. There are many more dates but for now some are shown here. ♥️
Some important and not-so-important dates are:
1832 Cave Spring (city) is established
1833 Flournoy’s proposal to establish GSD but is ignored
1846 GSD (private school) opens
1847 State funds and incorporates GSD
1880 ASL and other signed languages are banned in all national Deaf students’ schools; Forced to teach two divisions of ASL/SL (considered low class back then) and Oralism (spoken English/lipreading only)
1882 Black school at GSD opens; Two campuses (Fannin and Gordon) are in operation
1939 Primary Building (PB) is built
1955 ASL is declared a real language
1956 Historic marker is erected in honor of John J. Flournoy
1966 National Declaration of Oralism (Use spoken English/lipreading only) is considered a failure
1975 Mainstreaming Act passes (which hurt all Deaf schools); Black school at GSD is closed permanently; Two campuses (Fannin and Gordon) still open even if Black school at GSD closes
1984 Fannin Campus closes permanently; only one campus (Gordon) still in operation
1988 Unlocking Curriculum for all students (ASL is included in curriculum, as it is considered critical for Deaf students)
1990s PB along with other old GSD buildings on old Fannin campus are sold out to private owners and/or corporations; Deaf Schools slowly start to die due to 1975 mainstreaming law
2000s Bilingualism (and Multilingualism) and Deaf Culture celebrations increase nationwide
2004 ASL Rose opens
2010 ASL Rose goes into a brief hibernation due to revamping and rebranding
2013 GSD Museum opens
2018 ASL Rose relocates from Maryland to Georgia
2019 ASL Rose celebrates 15th; Deaf Cinderella is published
2019 FB Fundrasier launches with a goal to buy PB and turn it into three future divisions (National Deaf Schools Museum, a home for GSD Museum and ASL Rose store & studio)
2020 ASL Rose continues with new plans and exciting new projects
2021 GSD’s 175th Anniversary; ASL Rose’s surprises to be announced.
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