William Stokoe Timeline

1919- William C. Stokoe Jr. was born on July 21 in innovative Hampshire. 2 1937- He attended Wells College with the in the intention to make physical chemistry, but he decided that it consumed too much conviction and money and decided to study English instead. 1946- William Stokoe receives his Ph. D. in English and teaches at Wells College for seven years. 2 1955- William Stokoe is hired as the head of the plane section of English at Gallaudet College. It was a year later he was early exposed to deaf people foretokening.Stokoe decides to research signing because, unlike the opinions of many of his colleagues, he viewed signing as its own distinctive language. 2 1957- Stokoe receives a research grant from the American Council of Learned Societies to begin analyzing ASL as a language. Two years later, The National Science Foundation continued the mount for his study. 1-2 1960- Stokoe publishes his low gear book on the research he conducted on signing, coroneted Sign Language S tructure An Outline of the Visual Communication Systems of the American Deaf. -2 1965- Stokoe, along with Carl Croneberge and Dorothy Casterline, published his second book A Dictionary of American Sign Language on lingual Principles. This book includes Stokoes phylogeny of a written notation for ASL. This book as well helped Stokoes ideas go on wide acceptance and prove the legitimacy of sign language as an independent, fully developed language. 1-2 1971- Gallaudet University schematic a Linguistic Research science lab with Stokoe as the director until 1984.In the same year, he starts the publication of the newsletter, Signs of Our Times. 1-2 The start presentation of information about ASL takes place at the conference held by James Woodward, at the Linguistics Society of America. Two years later, the Linguistic Society of America creates a section for sign languages to be include in their conference. 1 1975- The Communicative Skills program of NAD (National Association of t he Deaf) established for the sign language teachers, called Sign Instructors Guidance Network (SIGN).Read alsoSummary Love Is Never SilentA year later, SIGN begins to certify sign language teachers at the NAD convention. 1 1979- Gallaudets readiness recognizes ASL as a means of communication to be used in classes. Gallaudet offers its faculty and staff the first course on the Structure of ASL. 1 1980- Stokoe is in the long run honored for his research 20 years after the publishing of his first book. 1 1984- Stokoe retires from Gallaudet University. Four years later, he receives an onorary doctorate from Gallaudet. 2 2000- William Stokoe dies of Myeloma on April 4 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. 2 References 1. ASL Timeline. (2006, May 15). Linguistics and Dialects of American Sign Language. Retrieved September 29, 2012, from http//buaslbutterfly. tripod. com/id7. html 2. William C. Stokoe Jr. (n. d. ). Angelfire Wel dress to Angelfire. Retrieved September 29, 2012, from http//www. ange lfire. come/ut/stelok/Stokoe. html