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The NSD was founded in 1869 by a deaf man named William DeCoursey French on 23 acres (93,000 m 2) in North Omaha. [3] [4]NSD was long a site for educational innovation. In 1893 the school's superintendent was cited for his commitment to encouraging teachers to use innovative techniques for classroom teaching, including gender integration and age-level isolation.
1864 – The U.S. Congress authorized the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind to confer college degrees, and President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law. Edward Miner Gallaudet was made president of the entire corporation, including the college.
Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide.
Lexington School for the Deaf. The Lexington School for the Deaf was founded in 1864. It is the oldest school for the deaf in New York. [2] According to The Encyclopedia of Special Education, the school was "a pioneer in oral education", as other schools for the deaf in the United States relied solely on sign language at the time.
The Nebraska Legislature passed an act to create the Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City on February 19, 1875, two years after Samuel Bacon had traveled to Nebraska to persuade the legislature to do so. According to the law, the school had to have at least 10 acres (4.0 ha) of space, be less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Otoe County ...
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Located at 2650 Bowman Mill Road in Lexington, near South Elkhorn Creek, Helm Place will be up for bid at a no-reserve auction later this month. The property has not been previously open to the ...
1965: Carl G. Croneberg was the first to discuss analogies between Deaf and hearing cultures in his appendices C/D of the 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language. [42] 1965: The National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, was established by the U.S. Congress. [20]