Njengezinye izinsuku eziningi, amasonto, noma izinyanga ezizinikezele ekuphakamiseni izimo zempilo ezithile, inyanga Yomlando Wezintatheli iyenzeka minyaka yonke. Lesi sikhathi, sibheke wonke amazwe kusukela ngonyaka ka-Mashi 13 kuya ku-Ephreli 15, sigubha umlando oyisithulu futhi, ikakhulukazi, iminikelo eyenziwa umphakathi oyisithulu kanye nokukhubazeka kokuzwa emphakathini nasemphakathini waseMelika.
Imicimbi Yomlando Eyisisekelo
Inyanga Yomlando Wezinsizi, ngokuklama, ihlukanisa imicimbi emithathu eyinhloko ethinta umphakathi wesithulu okwenzeka emlandweni waseMelika :
- Mashi 13 - 1988 UMongameli wezithulu Manje ukunyakaza kuphumelela. I-Jordan Jordan iba umengameli we-University of Gallaudet.
- Ephreli 8 - University of Gallaudet yasungulwa. UMengameli uLincoln wasayina lo mqulu ngo-1864 wamisa ekolishi lesithulu. Lo mcimbi waziwa ngokuthi yi-Gallaudet Charter Day futhi uvame ukuphawulwa ngesimiso sezinsuku zokudla nesiklomelo e-Gallaudet University.
- Ngo-Ephreli 15 - Isikole saseMelika Sabantu abayizithulu, isikole sokuqala sabantu abayizithulu, sivula ngo-1817.
Qala Inyanga Yomlando Wezithulu
Inyanga Yomlando Wezinsizwa kubonakala sengathi yayinezinhlobo zayo zohlobo lwezintambo ngo-Mashi 13, 1996, lapho abasebenzi ababili abayizithulu eWashington, DC, uMartin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library bafundisa osebenza nabo ulimi lwezandla. Lokhu kwenzeka kwavela esontweni lokuqwashisa izithulu ezidalwe umtapo wolwazi. Ngokushesha, isonto lokuqwashisa labantu abayizithulu lavela esikhathini esiyizinyanga ezinikezelwe ekuthuthukiseni ukuqonda okukhulu komphakathi oyisithulu, le nkathi yaphenduka ngokushesha kwaphela inyanga.
Ngo-1996, iNational National of the Deaf yasikisela ukuthi isonto libe inyanga egcwele, futhi ngonyaka ka-1997, inyanga yokuqala yonyaka, iNyanga kaZwelonke Yomlando Wezintambo yayigubha kusukela ngo-Mashi 13 kuya ku-Ephreli 15.Ukudumile kweNyanga Yomlando Wezinzwa ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, futhi okwamanje kukhona umzamo owenziwa yi-American Library Association kanye neNational National of the Deaf ukunikeza i-White House ukuba imemezele ukuthi iyisenzakalo sombuso esivelele.
Ukukhuthaza iNyanga Yomlando Wezithulu
U-Alice Hagemeyer, umsunguli we-Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action (FOLDA), manje engxenyeni yabangane beLebhukwana yeNational Association of the Deaf (NAD), ukhuthaza ngenkuthalo inyanga Yomlando Wezintatheli minyaka yonke. Phakathi nale nyanga, imitapo yolwazi iyakhuthazwa ukuba ibe nemisebenzi yokuqwashisa izithakazelo eziphakamisa ukulahlekelwa kwezindlebe nokuzwa kanye nabantu kanye nemicimbi ehlobene nokungezwa emlandweni. Kusukela ekufakweni kobuciko kuya kwimicimbi yokufunda inthanethi, imilabhu eminingi iphinde isingathe izenzakalo ezigubha iNyanga Yomlando Wezinzwa Zikazwelonke.