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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.
[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]
The Thomas Gallaudet Memorial is a sculpture by Daniel Chester French located on the campus of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., United States. The 1889 statue depicts Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sitting in a chair and Alice Cogswell standing at his side.
Panel from original Gallaudet monument (1854) depicting Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet teaching children the manual alphabet Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell signing the letter A Laurent Clerc memorial; the name "Clerc" is spelled out in sign language at the base of the monument.
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 ...
Chuck Goldstein has not used a whistle to coach football in more than a decade. Since arriving at Gallaudet University as an assistant in 2009, Goldstein has embraced coaching a team of Deaf and ...
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 ...