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Lexington School for the Deaf: 1864: East Elmurst: New York: PreK-12: Blue Jays: ESDAA Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1973: Anchorage: Alaska: PreK-12: Otter: American School for the Deaf: 1817: Hartford: Connecticut: K-12: Tigers: ESDAA 1 Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind: 1912: Tucson: Arizona: PreK-12 ...
The first deaf school in the United States was short-lived: established in 1815 by Col. William Bolling of Goochland, Virginia, in nearby Cobbs, with John Braidwood (tutor of Bolling's two deaf children) as teacher, it closed in the fall of 1816. [3] Gallaudet Memorial by Daniel Chester French (1925) at American School for the Deaf
Annexed by Seattle 1954 and used as the Nellie Goodhue School for mentally handicapped children, superseding the Woodhull Hay School (also part of the Shoreline district founded in 1954). Until 1957, was an annex to Northgate, then independent. Closed as a school in 1961, as Seattle Schools integrated special education students.
Pages in category "Schools for the deaf in the United States" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Washington Territory Legislature of 1885-86 passed a bill to build the Washington School for Defective Youth. On February 3, 1886, Governor Watson C. Squire, the eleventh territorial governor, signed the bill into law. [2] The school was split to form the State School for the Blind and the State School for the Deaf in 1913.
The Vancouver school's name was changed to the State School for the Deaf and Blind, with the blind students moved to the former facility for the "feeble minded". [4] In 1913, the two schools were officially separated by name, the State School for the Blind, and the State School for the Deaf. [4]
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An important event in the history of Deaf Americans was the introduction of the methodical sign system of the Abbé de l'Epée to deaf children at the American School for the Deaf in 1817 by Laurent Clerc, a French signer who accompanied Thomas Gallaudet to become the first teacher at the school.