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  2. Alice Cogswell - Wikipedia

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    The Gallaudet University Alumni Association gives the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund Alice Cogswell Award to people for valuable service on behalf of deaf citizens. [4] [5] Cogswell is known as a remarkable figure in the history of deaf culture, illustrating a breakthrough in deaf education. She showed that the deaf are capable of being taught and ...

  3. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Gallaudet path in life was altered when he met Alice Cogswell, on May 25, 1814, the nine-year-old deaf daughter of a neighbor, Dr. Mason Cogswell. [9] Gallaudet had returned to his parents' home in Hartford to recuperate from his seminary studies. On that day, as he observed Alice playing apart from other children, he wanted to teach her.

  4. Gallaudet Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The 1889 statue depicts Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sitting in a chair and Alice Cogswell standing at his side. Creation and unveiling. The memorial in 1898.

  5. History of deaf education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A sculpture of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell located on the Gallaudet University campus. In 1812 in New England, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet met a little girl named Alice Cogswell, who inspired him to create a school for the deaf in the United States.

  6. American School for the Deaf - Wikipedia

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    When it opened in 1817, there were seven students enrolled: Alice Cogswell, George Loring, Wilson Whiton, Abigail Dillingham, Otis Waters, John Brewster, and Nancy Orr. [8] The original name of the school was: The Connecticut Asylum (at Hartford) for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons.

  7. Mason Fitch Cogswell - Wikipedia

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    Mason Fitch Cogswell (1761–1830) [1] was an American physician who pioneered education for the deaf. Cogwell's daughter, Alice Cogswell , was deaf after the age of two, prompting Cogswell to jointly establish the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut .

  8. Schools for the deaf - Wikipedia

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    The American School for the Deaf, in West Hartford, Connecticut, was the first school for the deaf established in the United States, in 1817, by Thomas Gallaudet, in collaboration with a deaf teacher, also from France, named Laurent Clerc with support from the well-known Hartford Cogswell family. Alice Cogswell was the very first student to ...

  9. File:Alice Cogswell statue - Hartford, CT - 3.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Alice Cogswell, daughter of a founder of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now called the American School for the Deaf), and its first pupil. This statue honors Thomas Hopkins Gaulladet, Mason Fitch Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc, the school's founders. Sculpted by Frances L. Wadsworth. Date