One In Five for Sunday 10 July 2011
Gallaudet University in Washington DC is the world's first and only university for deaf students. Abraham Lincoln signed it into existence and its impact on the global deaf community has been enormous. From the radicalisation of deaf culture to the redefining 'Deaf President Now' protests of 1988, from the design ethos of deaf architecture to the aesthetics of sign language poetry and new bilingual pedagogies – join Natasha Mitchell on campus in the first of three programmes in an ABC ‘All In The Mind’ feature series. (ABC, Part 1 of 3)