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The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia, [1] an oral school, was established by William Bolling and John Braidwood, and the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a manual school, was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. [1]
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The Cobbs School was founded in 1815 in Chesterfield County, Virginia. [2] It was the first school for teaching Deaf and Mute people in the United States; however, it closed in 1816. [ 3 ]
This school hailed as the first public school for deaf education in Britain. Braidwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb, now known as Braidwood School, [12] and the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb renamed Royal School for Deaf Children [13] are still in operation to-date. Braidwood School still employs the method of a "combined system" of education ...
During the American Civil War, the school's Main Hall was used as a hospital by Confederate troops, and several staff members served as doctors or nurses. The school now houses a Deaf History Museum on its grounds. Sometime after the war, Thomas Davis Ranson served as the school director. [7] In the late 1960s the school had 550 students.
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A grandson, John Braidwood, began tutoring deaf students in Virginia in 1812, and ran the short-lived Cobbs School for the deaf from its founding in 1815 until its demise in the fall of 1816. [ 7 ] Braidwood was a distant cousin of Thomas Braidwood Wilson (1792–1843), after whom the Australian town of Braidwood, New South Wales is named.