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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language: Emily Arnold McCully Based on the true story of how Deaf education in America was developed, Alice becomes Deaf after illness aged two. 6-9 yrs 2008 A Day at the Park (Hattie and Friends) Lesley Bremington, Karen Middleton
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 .
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