Explore Our Campus.

History and innovative DeafSpace architecture converge on the campus of an internationally renowned university.  Gallaudet is a rich multicultural and multilingual community.  Our students are from all over the world.  They come from private and public schools, and schools for the deaf.  They sign, are learning to sign, are deaf,hard of hearing, or can hear with or without technology.  Everyone who is here seeks the bilingual learning and multicultural community that only Gallaudet offers.

It was here that American Sign Language was first recognized as a language,advancing recognition of sign languages all over the world.

It was here that students led national awareness about the rights of people with disabilities, accelerating the passage of

the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).