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Harriet Burbank Rogers (April 12, 1834 – December 12, 1919) was an American educator, a pioneer in the oral method of instruction of the deaf.She was the first director of Clarke School for the Deaf, the first U.S. institution to teach the deaf by articulation and lip reading rather than by signing.
Blanche Wilkins Williams (December 1, 1876 – March 24, 1936) was an American educator of deaf children. In 1893 she became the first African American woman to graduate from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf. She was described by a prominent deaf newspaper as "the most accomplished deaf lady of her race in America". [citation needed]
Class for deaf students in Kayieye, Kenya Deaf education is the education of students with any degree of hearing loss or deafness.This may involve, but does not always, individually-planned, systematically-monitored teaching methods, adaptive materials, accessible settings, and other interventions designed to help students achieve a higher level of self-sufficiency and success in the school ...
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851 [1]) was an American educator.Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal.
The South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind held a ribbon cutting ceremony for their new, natural playground on April 10, 2024. The playground helps students with motor skills and is ...
In line with other deaf schools run by the Sisters of Saint Joseph, the Boston School focused on teaching deaf children to speak and to lip read, rather than to communicate via sign language. [3] The school also collaborated with Randolph Public Schools, creating both a joint drama program and a program which allowed Deaf students to attend ...
On April 8, 2015, The Learning Center for the Deaf announced that beginning September 1, 2015, the PreK-12th grade program would be named the Marie Philip School. An icon within the Deaf community, Marie Jean Philip was a pioneer in the bilingual-bicultural movement, and a legendary advocate for the education of Deaf children around the world.
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 ...