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September 27
Deaf Pride during Deaf Awareness Week
National Museum of American History has several hundred pin-back buttons in its collections related to disability, including this one. Can you tell what letters the hands in the middle are spelling out in ASL?
Feeling Sound through Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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1981 Smithsonian Folklife Festival's 'Folklore of the Deaf' section
A story about the history of Gallaudet University told through a button
Explore PBS's "Through Deaf Eyes," inspired in part by an SI exhibit
Read an SI Tween Tribune about adding new words to American Sign Language
Learn the Sign Language alphabet!
Before Helen Keller, there was Laura Bridgman
SAAM leads tours in ASL - Art Signs!
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