Njengaye ezinye iintsuku, iiveki, okanye iinyanga ezizinikezele ukuphakamisa ulwazi ngeemeko ezithile zempilo, iNyanga yeMbali yeNtnga ivela rhoqo ngonyaka. Eli lixesha lexesha, liphawula lonke ilizwe ukususela ngo-Matshi 13 ukuya ku-Apreli 15, lugubha umlando wezithulu , ngokukodwa, imirhumo eyenziwe ngabantu abangazithulu kunye neengxaki zokuvalelwa kwiinkcubeko kunye noluntu lwaseMerika.
Iziganeko ezibalulekileyo zeMbali
Inyanga Yembali Yengenangxaki, ngokuyila, ivula iziganeko ezintathu eziphambili ezichaphazela abantu abayizithulu okwenzeka kumlando waseMelika :
- NgoKwindla 13 - 1988 UMongameli wezithulu Ukunyakaza kuphumelela. UKumkani uYordan waba ngumongameli weYunivesithi yaseGallaudet.
- Epreli 8 - IYunivesithi yaseGallaudet yasungulwa. UMongameli uLincoln wasayina i-charter ngowe-1864 ukuseka iikholeji yezizithulu. Esi siganeko saziwa ngokuba yi-Gallaudet Charter Day kwaye ngokuqhelekileyo sikhankanywe ngeprogram yokutya neendlomelo kwiYunivesithi yaseGaludud.
- Ngo-Apreli 15 - Isikolo saseMerika seZiThulu, isikolo sokuqala sabantu abazizithulu, sivula ngo-1817.
Ukuqala kweNyanga yeMbali yeNtnga
Inyanga Yembali Yezithulu ibonakala ibenomzimba wayo wesiganeko ngo-Matshi 13, 1996, xa abasebenzi baseTashington, DC baseMatthew Luther King, iJr. Memorial Library bafundisa ulwimi lwabo lwezandla ngolwimi lwezandla. Oku kwenzeke kuye kwiveki yesaziso esisizithulu esenziwe yilayibrari. Ngokukhawuleza, iveki yokuqonda isisigxina yaba yinyanga ephakanyisiweyo yokukhuthaza ukuqonda okubanzi abantu abangevayo, eli xesha laguqukela ngokukhawuleza ukuba liphele ngenyanga.
Ngo-1996, uMbutho weSizwe weZizithulu wacebisa ukuba iveki ibe yinyanga epheleleyo, kwaye ngowama-1997, inyanga yokuqala yonyaka, iNyanga kaZwelonke yeNtlu engabonakaliyo yabhiyozelwa ukususela ngoMatshi 13 ukuya ku-Ephreli. ixesha elidlulileyo, kwaye ngoku kukho umzamo owenziwa nguMbutho weeLibrari waseMerika kunye noMbutho kaZwelonke weZiThulu ukufumana iNdlu yeNdlu ukuvakalisa isiganeko sesizwe esisemthethweni.
Ukukhuthaza iNyanga yeMbali yezithulu
U-Alice Hagemeyer, umsunguli we-Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action (FOLDA), ngoku i-Library Friends Friends Section of the National Association of Disabled (NAD), ikhuthaze ngenkuthalo inyanga yembali yeNtlu. Ngelo nyanga, iilayibrari zikhuthazwa ukuba zibe nemisebenzi yokuqwashisa izakhono eziphakamisa ukulahlekelwa kwindlebe kunye nentsiba kunye nabantu kunye neziganeko ezinxulumene nokungeva kwimbali. Ukususela kwizixhobo zobugcisa kwiziganeko zokufunda kwi-intanethi, ezininzi iilayibrari nazo zibamba iindwendwe ezibhiyozela iNyanga yeNkcazo kaZwelonke yeNtlu