Dr. Kannapell’s professional correspondence. Includes several files of general correspondence, then correspondence on specific topics.

Material of special interest in this series includes correspondence and reports from the Deafness-Related Concerns Council (DRCC), an organization formed to represent deaf faculty and staff at Gallaudet and which later became the President’s Council on Deafness. The DRCC’s work was a major impetus in the revision of Gallaudet’s faculty and staff orientation curriculum, as represented in series 3.

This series also includes correspondence from other groups that provided a deaf perspective on Gallaudet’s functions and practices. These include the Gallaudet Deaf Caucus and Committee Z, the latter a group that worked on reforming deaf education at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES).

Correspondence on the closing of the IDEC office is also included, as well as correspondence on workshops, symposia, and other events that Dr. Kannapell attended after leaving Gallaudet.