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Gallaudet University [a] (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ d ɛ t / GAL-ə-DET) is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children.
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.
Edward Miner Gallaudet (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ d ɛ t / GAL-ə-DET; February 5, 1837 – September 26, 1917), was the first president of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. (then known as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind from 1864 until 1894 and then Gallaudet College from 1894 to 1986) from 1864 to 1910.
[13] [15] Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University) was founded in Washington, D.C in 1864 with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet's son, Edward Miner Gallaudet, as the school's superintendent. [16] [17] Edward Miner Gallaudet strongly believed in the use of sign language and had a number of arguments with Alexander Graham Bell, an oralist. [18]
Sophia Fowler Gallaudet (March 20, 1798 – May 13, 1877) was the wife of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.As the founding matron of the school that became Gallaudet University, she played an important role in deaf history, even playing a key role in lobbying US congressmen in the effort to establish Gallaudet (then the "National Deaf-Mute College").
Gallaudet University was originally established as a grammar school for deaf and blind children under the name Columbia Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. The school was founded in 1857 by Amos Kendall (1789-1869) on his estate. It was later renamed in commemoration of progressive educator and advocate, Thomas Hopkins ...
Thomas Gallaudet (June 3, 1822 – August 27, 1902), [1] an American Episcopal priest, [2] was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was the renowned pioneer of deaf education in the United States. His mother, Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, who was deaf, was the founding matron of the school that became Gallaudet ...
Edson Gallaudet was born April 21, 1871 in Washington, D.C. to Edward Miner Gallaudet, founder of Gallaudet University and son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.Both his father and grandfather were famous educators in the field of deaf education.