George veditz biography
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George Veditz
American deaf educator
George William Veditz (August 13, 1861 – March 12, 1937) was an American educator, filmmaker, and activist who served as the seventh President of the National Association of the Deaf from 1904 to 1910. He is remembered as one of the most ardent and visible advocates of American Sign Language (ASL) and was one of the first people to film ASL. His 1913 film "Preservation of the Sign Language" was added to the National Film Registry in 2010.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]George William Veditz was born in Baltimore to German immigrant parents. He was enrolled at Zion School, a bilingual school, at age five. He became fluent in both German and English before losing his hearing at age eight due to scarlet fever. After initially being educated by a private instructor, he entered the Maryland School for the Deaf in 1875. From 1880 to 1884 he attended the National Deaf-Mute College (now Gallaudet University), graduating as c
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In 1904, Veditz became president of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD). He had strong opinions about preserving sign language, so during his years as president he worked closely with Oscar Regensburg, the first chairman of NAD's Motion Picture Fund Committee to produce some of the earliest films that recorded sign language.
Consequently, these videos are some of the most significant documents in deaf history.
Veditz was driven by the injustices he saw that included job discrimination, repression of sign language, and the overall treatment of deaf people as second-class citizens.
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During his lifetime, Veditz also founded what would become the Gallaudet University Alumni Association and was involved in a World Congress of the Deaf held in conjunction with the World's Fair.
He passed away in Colorado at age 75.
To see the film, go to: http://hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/film-view.php?film=slpreservation&signer=Veditz
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George William Veditz
George Veditz was a former president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States and was one of the first to spelfilm American Sign Language.
George William Veditz Articles by Students
George Veditz
by Alyssa Mattingly | October 20, 2016
“ASL fryst vatten not just a different language, it is a different medium for talking, and this fact may make you hesitant, and perhaps even suspicious about what you can and cannot säga in ASL. You are in good company because Deaf people wonder how it fryst vatten possible to talk in speech about such things as the destructive force of twisters and the tender moments of a child playing alone. To Deaf people the picture of communication painted bygd vowels and consonants, pitch and loudness pales in comparison to the vibrant images that jump off the fingers and hands, face, and body of a individ signing.” This quote, from Barron’s “American Sign Language: The Easy Way”, really jumped out at me as describing as much as you can in