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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]
A U.S. state regulation from the Colorado Department of Human Services defines Deaf (uppercase) as "A group of people, with varying hearing acuity, whose primary mode of communication is a visual language (predominantly American Sign Language (ASL) in the United States) and have a shared heritage and culture," and has a separate definition for ...
1832 – 1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson reelected president; Martin Van Buren elected vice president. 1832 – Jackson vetoes the charter renewal of the Second Bank of the United States, bringing to a head the Bank War and ultimately leading to the Panic of 1837. December 28, 1832 – Calhoun resigns as vice president.
July 30 – Richard Rush, 8th United States Attorney General and 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1780) August 2 – Horace Mann, educator and abolitionist (born 1796) August 15 – Nathaniel Claiborne, politician (born 1777) September 2 – Delia Bacon, playwright and writer on the Shakespeare authorship question (born 1811)
Deaf people who know Sign Language are proud of their history. In the United States, they recount the story of Laurent Clerc, a Deaf educator, and Thomas H. Gallaudet, an American educator, coming to the United States from France in 1816 to help found the first permanent school for deaf children in the country. In the late 1850s there was a ...
The library at Gallaudet University, the only deaf liberal arts university in the United States, was founded in 1876. The library's collection has grown from a small number of reference books to the world's largest collection of deaf-related materials, with over 234,000 books and thousands of other materials in different formats.
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Anderson C. Rose (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Nicholas Brown III (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Richard de Treville ( Democratic ) (until December 9), Gabriel Cannon ( Democratic ) (starting December 9)
February 3 – The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, D.C., becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf. March 4 – James Buchanan is sworn in as the 15th president of the United States, and John C. Breckinridge is sworn in as the 14th vice president.