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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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 ...
Gallaudet met nine-year-old Alice Cogswell who knew no form of communication system. He learned of Sicard's theories and started tutoring Alice. Gallaudet traveled to Europe in May 1815 and attended demonstrations in France led by Sicard, Clerc, and Massieu. He returned in March 1816 and persuaded Clerc to return with him to the United States.
Cogswell is a surname, derived from the town of Coggeshall in Essex. [1] Notable people with the surname include: A. E. Cogswell (1858–1934), British architect; Alice Cogswell (1805–1830), deaf American, daughter of Mason Fitch Cogswell; Bryce Cogswell, computer expert; Charles A. Cogswell (1844–1908), American state senator