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Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Wikipedia

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Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Headquarters in Washington, DC
Founded	1890
Founder	Alexander Graham Bell
Focus	Speech, cochlear implants
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
Area served	United States
Method	Resources and advocacy
Key people	Susan Lenihan, Ph.D., Chair Emilio Alonso-Mendoza, CEO
Employees	8
Website	www.agbell.org

The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, also known as AG Bell, is an organization that aims to promote listening and spoken language among people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with chapters located throughout the United States and a network of international affiliates.

History

The Association was originally created as the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (AAPTSD). In 1908 it merged with Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Bureau (founded in 1887 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf"), and was renamed as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in 1956 at the suggestion of Mrs. Frances Toms, the mother of a deaf son who was able to achieve high academic standings in mainstream schools with the organization's help.^[1] In 1999 the Association was finally renamed to the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.^[2]

Controversy

The foundation has been criticised for misleading and inaccurate claims made in relation to the use of American Sign Language among the Deaf community after Nyle DiMarco was announced as the winner of season 22 of America's Next Top Model. The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the National Association of the Deaf, the National Black Deaf Advocates and academics accused the foundation of inaccuracy, bias, pseudoscience, xenophobia and eugenics.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] These are also allegations against Bell himself, who in 1884 published Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race, a eugenics text that attributed sign education to more frequent marriages between deaf people, an outcome Bell recommended against on the grounds that family medical history can be one of several contributing factors towards some kinds of hearing loss.^{[needs independent confirmation]}

References

^ "Bell Ceremony: Give Glimpses of Life Of Telephone Inventor; "Always Loved Canada" ", Brantford Expositor, 14 September 1953, pp. 13, 19.
^ "AGBell". Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
^ "News Impacting the RID Community: Nyle DiMarco & AG Bell Association". Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. April 5, 2016. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
^ "Nyle DiMarco and Language for Your Child". National Association of the Deaf. April 3, 2016. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
^ "NBDA Letter to AG Bell President Meredith Sugar, Esq". National Black Deaf Advocates. April 3, 2016. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
^ Peter C Hauser (April 2, 2016). "Nyle is not the one spreading myths". Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. Retrieved October 6, 2018 – via Facebook.

A.A.P.T.S.D. The Association Review: 1906, Philadelphia, Penn.: American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Retrieved from the Internet Archive, June 7, 2012. Note: this review has been inadvertently listed on the Internet Archive as The Association Review: 1899, although some metadata correctly identifies it as from the year 1906.

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People	Anthony Pollok Charles Williams Jr. Glenn Curtiss Marcellus Bailey Thomas Cowherd Thomas Selfridge Thomas A. Watson Walter Seymour Allward
Works	AEA Cygnet AEA June Bug AEA Red Wing AEA Silver Dart AEA White Wing Aerial Experiment Association Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bell Boatyard Bell Oionus I Bell System Bell Telephone Company Canadian Aerodrome Baddeck No. 1 and No. 2 Canadian Aerodrome Company Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Dictation machine Edison Gower-Bell Telephone Company of Europe Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy Graphophone HD-4 Hubbard Monoplane Life Extension Institute National Geographic Society National Telephone Company New England Telephone and Telegraph Company Oriental Telephone Company Phonograph cylinder Photophone Volta Laboratory and Bureau
Tributes	Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site Alexander Graham Bell School (Illinois) Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes Bell Homestead National Historic Site Bell Telephone Memorial Graham Bell Island HMCS Bras d'Or IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Pioneers, a Volunteer Network The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939 film) The Sound and the Silence (1992 film)
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